Penn Jillette People Quotations

The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

Direct confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.

A lot of people, to attack an outspoken atheist, one of the things they'll do is say, 'You are as bad as the fundamentalist Christians.' And my answer is always, 'I hope so.'

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.

People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.

Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around.

It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

People like Bill Maher, who brags about being a cynic, it sickens me. I am the least cynical person I know, and I am very, very skeptical.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

When you tell other people to do stuff they don't know how to do, they tend to freak out.

Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

I think it was Laurence Olivier who said that one of the things you have to accept in art is that when you put your heart into doing something there will be people who don't like it for really good reasons, really smart people who don't like what you've done for very valid reasons. That is hard to accept, that there are really valid reasons for not liking anything. The astonishing thing is that there haven't been many valid reasons for anyone not to like this movie.

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.' Those people flying the plane were very good, very pious, truly faithful believers. There's no other way to paint them. Of course, they are extremists by definition, but they certainly aren't going against Islam in any real way.

You have networks for people who bass fish, and another for people who trout fish.

When you look at the actual numbers, the number of people who died after 9/11 was greater than the number of people who died in 9/11, even if you are talking Americans. But you know, I don't like to talk Americans. I want to talk everybody. More innocent people died after 9/11 because of 9/11 than died in 9/11.

It's kind of treating people as adults. Or friends.

I read a lot of books to my children, and they all seem really good. I think people have gotten really good at children's books.

I think people under age 55 come to Vegas with a certain sense of irony.

No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

The vast majority of people who have guns never hurt anybody.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

If you can just convince the dope people that the gun people are right and the gun people that the dope people are right, we could actually live in a lot more freedom.

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.

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

My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

Make deals with people, not paper.

Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it.

You can't stop insane people from doing insane things with insane laws. That's insane!

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian until the last part of the 20th century. Before that, you might identify as a Baptist, or a Southern Baptist or a Methodist. But there wasn't one identifier that put you in a fold with all the other believers.

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.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

So many people say, ‘You know, your taxes aren’t taken by force,’ and that’s foolish. If you don’t pay your taxes and you don’t answer the warrant and you don’t go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.