Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
eyes mean open reality seems
Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
car imagine meant people text
People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
mean succeed failing
Failing doesn't have to mean not succeeding,
aspire immediate individual means produce producing return
Our goal is not to produce immediate results. We've been tasked with producing long-term results. That means that there's more risk in any individual thing we take on. But we still aspire to a strong return on investment.
moving believe mean
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true. The first proposed that the earth, instead of being stationary, was moving around at a great and variable speed in a universe that is much bigger than it appears to our immediate perception. That proposal, I believe, was first made by Aristarchos two millenia ago ... Remarkably enough, the name Aristarchos in Greek means best beginning.
physics mathematics meaningless
Physics without mathematics is meaningless.
character mean responsibility
I think hopefully as you're getting older you're getting parts that require more preparation, and by that I just mean - I don't know, usually the older you get you get characters with more responsibility. Each one is different, there are certain movies that when the guy starts you pretty much come with that character on page one and then you see their growth, whereas other guys a lot has happened before that movie starts and you have to come in with something.
confront conversation forced onstage shut
The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.
backs hairs magic penn people stuff teller
People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
fan foremost penn teller thinks
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
good intrinsic merely people tv
To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
america entirely hijacked people scouts
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
assumed happily life
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
gore
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.