Teller
Teller
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth14 February 1948
CountryUnited States of America
joke merely people street time work
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'
audience engaging experiment hell magic perform time
Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
anyone might reasonably spending time
Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
buying consider drop factor number people pickup roughly time
Every time you drop the price by a factor of two, you roughly get a 10 times pickup of the number of people who will seriously consider buying it.
essence time
It is the essence of innovation to fail most of the time.
digital glass harmonize people physical time
The moonshot for Google Glass is to harmonize the physical and digital worlds. It is specifically to find a way to help people be naturally, elegantly situated, physical and digitally, at the same time.
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.
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.
art threat
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
absolute certainly given science spare
Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
art
The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.
art form lie magic people
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
understanding viewers
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.