Penn Jillette

“In my run-ins with Christians... I find that they really are good moral people. And we overlap on everything, and they don't seem to be the kind of people that are waiting to hear voices to...”

“If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.”

“Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.”

“Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.”

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

“Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.”

“There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.”

“I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.”

“'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.”

“We celebrities are desperate pigs.”

“Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.”

“Every poker player is smarter than me.”

“There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.”

“My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.”

“Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.”

“For better or worse, in the 21st century, reality shows are the variety show.”

“My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.”

“One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread -...”

“To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll show, I'd never seen a comic or a show.”

“Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.”