People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.
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.
I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled to little tiny pieces if art in the future was inspired by other things.
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows.
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.
It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.
Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.
I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
The pure unadulterated disgust of Washington seems to me to be a really good thing.
Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.
'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.
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.
I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.
Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.
I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.
I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.
Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.
You can't believe how pro-gay and pro-freedom-of-speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left.
I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.
A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'
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.
Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.
Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.