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If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.
Penn Jillette
Me
You
Magic
About
Stuff
Talk
Up
Close
Close-Up
Blows
Done
Want
Away
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
Penn Jillette
Funny
Failure
Joke
Way
Say
Laugh
Something
End
Get
Going
Now
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Penn Jillette
Truth
Lying
Teller
Penn
Although
Order
Stand
Things
Necessarily
Two
I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
Penn Jillette
Time
Think
Fooling
Lot
Itself
Media
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
Penn Jillette
Late
Tremendously
Magic
Audience
American
Modern
Century
Disrespectful
I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.
Penn Jillette
Age
People
Sense
Think
Vegas
Come
Irony
Certain
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.
Penn Jillette
Art
Entertainment
Money
Say
Performers
Accept
Want
Anyone
Available
Paying
Right
Reject
You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
Penn Jillette
You
People
Country
Year
See
Only
Boston
Vegas
Know
Most
Audience
Chicago
Miami
Get
Goes
Anywhere
Theater
Gonna
Show
Who
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions.
Penn Jillette
Good
Rights
Believe
Individual
Individual Rights
Like
Sort
Questions
Any
Much
If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.
Penn Jillette
Mother
Power
Sense
Universe
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Omniscient
Would
Had
Know
Make
How
Chose
Suffer
Imagine
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
Penn Jillette
Truth
Time
You
People
Think
Lying
Spend
About
Lot
Means
It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
Penn Jillette
Funny
You
People
TV
See
Know
Because
Cameras
Just
Just Because
Really
Acting
My hair is way, way long. I've hitchhiked across the country a zillion times. I've ridden in every car. I was never a hippie. It takes more than long hair.
Penn Jillette
Car
Long
Hair
Country
Every
Way
More
Long Hair
Never
Takes
Hippie
Times
Than
Across
Ridden
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.
Penn Jillette
Freedom
Car
Seen
Drive
Before
Rural
Rural America
Never
Had
Rock
Comic
Rock And Roll
America
Roll
Show
'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
Penn Jillette
Integrity
Seen
Apprentice
More
Most
Celebrity
Straightforward
Show
Ever
Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.
Penn Jillette
Good
Jokes
Too
Teller
Penn
Practical
Got
Doing
Stopped
Much
Reason
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
Penn Jillette
Experience
Vision
Else
Back
Entertained
Plugging
Someone
Part
Sitting
Being
I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.
Penn Jillette
Love
Art
Son
People
Dangerous
Dawn
He
League
Dead
Making
George
His
Done
Little
Little League
Coaching
Team
Who
Violent
The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
Penn Jillette
Good
Me
Pure
Seems
Good Thing
Disgust
Really
Washington
Thing
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
Penn Jillette
You
Money
Made
Year
Few
Guard
Must
Horrible
More
Lifetime
Know
Couple
Make
How
Sound
How Much
Dollars
His
Than
Going
Jail
Much
Even
Dad
Ever
Million
Million Dollars
Need
The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.
Penn Jillette
Hurt
People
Guns
Vast
Vast Majority
Never
Majority
Anybody
Who
For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
Penn Jillette
Technology
Magic
Part
Lights
Most
Very
Than
Any
Theatrical
Much
Show
Using
Serious
I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.
Penn Jillette
Me
Think
Laugh
Sexy
About
Scary
Something
Gives
Dirt
Thrown
Like
Also
Make
Makes
Dumb
Blood
Gets
Maybe
Want
Movie
Little
Movies
Them
Hollywood
Racing
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.
Penn Jillette
God
Religion
Matter
Decision
Trouble
Important
Understanding
Think
Our
Our Lives
Says
Kind
All Our Lives
Vitally
Important Decision
Existence
Lot
Person
Based
Lives
If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.
Penn Jillette
Government
You
Will
Gun
Pay
Everything
Someone
Voluntarily
Court
Answer
Does
Go
Up
Done
Just
Want
Taxes
Your
Warrant
Show
Eventually
Pull
If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.
Penn Jillette
You
Stuff
Like
Liking
Go
Up
Chance
Chances
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