American - Entertainer | March 5, 1955 -
Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
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I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
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A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
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I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that's very, very difficult.
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I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.
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I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
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I don't know what's best for other people.
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Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
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I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
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Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.
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Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.
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