34 Quotes by Teller

People come up to me on the street and make some little joke - like they'll say, 'Excuse me, sir, what time is it?' And I'll say, you know, '5:15,' and they'll say, 'Hey! Made you talk!' And that's merely a way of saying, 'I know your work and I like you.'

If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

People do not come to a Penn & Teller show to see a magic show. They just don't. They come to see weird stuff that they can see no place else, that will make them laugh and make the little hairs stand up on the backs of their necks.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.