458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

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.'

My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Two things have always been true about human beings. One, the world is always getting better. Two, the people living at that time think it`s getting worse.

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.