139 Quotes by Derren Brown

The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.

I never really enjoy the thought of fancy dress.

I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.

Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.

When you're made to be frightened within a safe context, like watching a horror film, you have that tension/release which triggers all those happy chemicals that feel good.

I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.

I think it's important to be sort of nice.

Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.

In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.