139 Quotes by Derren Brown

I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.

And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand or he's just got two cards that are the same, it doesn't matter: it's how it's sold and how magical it is for the person that matters.

If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.

I am a movie geek, yes!

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.

In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.

Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.