Penn Jillette Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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

“I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.”

“If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.”

“The medium is not the message - the message is the message.”

“There is no reason for the government to limit political speech.”

“The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.”

“The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.”

“Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.”

“I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosphere where it's possible that he doesn't get enough feedback, enough people rolling their eyes at him. It's a danger more in show business than it is with wealth.”

“When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.”