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Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.
Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.
If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
People take reality for granted.
People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'
The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well I can continue to cut off my son's head or you can all give me some money.' Then he wanders around and takes 10 rupees from everyone and restores his son.
I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
