Teller Quotes & Sayings

“When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.”

“Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.”

“If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.”

“Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.”

“Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.”

“Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.”

“Doing beautiful things is its own reward.”