Penn Jillette Quotes

"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them."
-Penn Jillette in Internet quotes.

"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision."
-Penn Jillette in Art quotes.

"Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving."
-Penn Jillette

"Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."
-Penn Jillette

"Five years ago, I was in New York, and I saw Elvis Costello and I said, 'I look forward to seeing you in Vegas."
-Penn Jillette

"In the '60s, you know, you had this -- you'd have, you know, James Brown on the same show with Alan King, and that was -- that made perfect sense, and it still makes perfect sense."
-Penn Jillette

"You donate blood, you save a life and you get to see our stupid show."
-Penn Jillette

"It's really not good, ... I mean, when I talked to Siegfried last night, he said, you know, it was going to be OK. You have no idea what that means. It means a friend that he's loved dearly and worked with for 28 years -- his heart's still beating, and there's still hope."
-Penn Jillette

"It's an idea we'd had for 15 years. But the technology did not catch up with us until the last couple of years, when we could have enough cameras safely enough underwater that it would look as great as we thought it would."
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"Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything."
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"We don't mind preaching to the converted when the non-converted are so ******* stupid."
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"And I said, `Isn't it sad that's the only way he can think of?' ... And the second I said it, I'm going, `Oh, God.'"
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"And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking."
-Penn Jillette