Penn Jillette Quotes about Magic

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

Art, People, Magic

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.

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Reality, Differences, Magic

"Voodoo and Violence". Interview with Steve Kurtz, reason.com. April 1994.

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.

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Skills, Magic, Use

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

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Magic, Disrespectful, Modern

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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 - sometimes literally.

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Magic, Sometimes, Disaster

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.

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Cheesy, Magic, Cold

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

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Technology, Light, Magic

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

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Hate, Magic, Levels

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

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Magic, Special, Olympics

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

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Blow, Magic, Done

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.