Penn Jillette

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. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#beavis #censorship #did #down #i

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. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#difference #fantasy #i #magic #obsessed

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#believe #everything #just #just because #known

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#creepy #kind #knew #odd #people

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. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#culture #famous #get #hard #houdini

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. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing

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. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#big fan #country #even #fan #huge

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

#before #between #by the time #course #damage

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#association #believe #everything #free #hardcore

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#any #drink #had #i #life