Penn Jillette

Entertainer

204 Quotes

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.

The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.

From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

We need a president who realizes that there's no government business in show business.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

My love of computers, besides being practical, is very direct and visceral. I love the way things look on the screen.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

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.

I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

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