Penn Jillette Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: 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.

  Penn Jillette

  Reality, Differences, Magic

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

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

  Penn Jillette

  Magic, Disrespectful, Modern

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

• There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

  Penn Jillette

  Jobs, Skills, Careers

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. June 8, 2010.

• Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

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  Beautiful, Iphone, Design

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

• 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.

• 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. That is the subject that, if you have a brain in your head, is always dealt with in magic. The smarter the tricks you're doing, the more that' s an important thing.

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  Reality, Differences, Brain

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

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

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  Art, People, Magic

• Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

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  Magic, Special, Olympics

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

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