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Derren Brown

Derren Brown

English Entertainer

Born: Feb 27, 1971

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As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up. Derren Brown

You Else Everyone Everyone Else Feel Performer Child Often Grown-Up

Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important. Derren Brown

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else. Derren Brown

You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do. Derren Brown

You Natural People Someone Hypnosis Make Exist Role Expectations Just Want Anything Realise Capacity Works Play

Most people's fear of being in front of an audience can generally be conquered by being completely on top of what it is they've got to do. Derren Brown

People Fear Top Generally Most Audience Got Front Being Conquered

I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it. Derren Brown

You Fear Once Running More Idea Powerful Towards Doing Came Go Frighten Than Realise Far Across Actually Things

That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people. Derren Brown

People Embarrass Kind Gigs Like How Offered Being Want Started

If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show. Derren Brown

You Aim Sake End Up Very Controversial Meaningless Show Thin

There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating. Derren Brown

Me Age About Something Charming Manipulating Even Enjoyed Early Early Age

I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate. Derren Brown

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive. Derren Brown

I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but the payoff is the wow factor. Derren Brown

Love Stage TV Wow More More Than Anything Factor Touring Safeguards Doing Than Anything Process Show Payoff Enjoyable

Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile. Derren Brown

Psychic Worthwhile Find Doing Just Interesting Things

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. Derren Brown

Art Childish Magic Both Vaudeville Cheap Feet Dishonesty Planted Therefore

Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared. Derren Brown

Day Gay Dark Big Society Interview Secret Carried Out Following Poets Shame No-One Like Dead Reaction Became Around Climax Came Child Expecting Gradually Being Newspaper Capacity Really Actually Thing Cared

Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go. Derren Brown

Everything Way Would Would-Be Boring About Go Causing Very Controversy

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