American - Entertainer | March 5, 1955 -
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
Penn Jillette
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The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
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The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.
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The fact is that violence gives you a rush.
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One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
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It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
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If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
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I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.
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I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
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I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
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But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.
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