Penn Jillette Good Quotations

The thing was, I have a very good job; he has a very good job,

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

And we realized it was time to do a show underwater. Magic needs a good head-soaking.

I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.