458 Quotes by Penn Jillette

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.

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.’

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.

Having a Hummer is stupid. It’s stupid to waste that much gas. It’s stupid to waste that much money on gas. It’s stupid to parade your insecurities on public roads. Hummers are stupid-looking.

You don’t have freedom unless you have the freedom to do stupid self-destructive things.

The most important part of life is work, it’s the flow, it’s getting stuff done, feeling like you’re doing something.

I didn’t learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

There never was a God. ‘God is dead’ is a halfway measure I won’t go with.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don’t know how I would make that make sense in the universe.