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.'
almost work yours
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
level reaches technology ultimate work
When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'
car cent engine goes miles per ten tend work
When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
work
The longer you work on something, the more you don't really want to know what the world is going to tell you.
work-out done world
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
work-out film excited
I enjoy the physicality a little more, with Vinnie Paz [in Bleed for This] that was the most prep I've ever had to do for a film, that was a legit like 7 months of diet and working out. And then I was able to do like an accent, I was able to change myself physically, I was able to do a lot of the things that I'd always looked at actors and admired when they did that. So I was excited to do that.
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.