I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.
If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.
There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.
You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.
I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.
I don't know what's best for other people.
I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.
If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.
The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.
Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.
The medium is not the message - the message is the message.
Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.
The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later that George Carlin and I both said that at the exact same time. That's the first thing that popped into our head.
If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.
Everybody wants clean, safe energy. Some people think nuclear is the way to go. Some people think coal is the way to go. Some people think wind is the way to go. And there's always balances on that.
Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.
