Quotes by Teller - Page 1

I'm a lazy sod.
Teller / Magician
Lazy
Sod
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People take reality for granted.
Teller / Magician
Granted
Reality
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Comedically, unpleasantness is great fun.
Teller / Magician
Great Fun
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Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
Teller / Magician
Deception
Novice
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Doing beautiful things is its own reward.
Teller / Magician
Beautiful Things
Reward
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Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself.
Teller / Magician
Yourself
Nothing
Lie
Fools
Tell
Than
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I'm more apt to cry at something beautiful than at something sad.
Teller / Magician
Sad
Cry
Apt
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Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.
Teller / Magician
Form
Lying
Magic
Art Form
Lie
Tell
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Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.
Teller / Magician
Absolutely Nothing
Exhilaration
Not Talking
Onstage
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In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.
Teller / Magician
Magic
Important Part
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The place we want to explore unpleasantness in the real world is in art.
Teller / Magician
Real World
Explore
The Real World
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As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
Teller / Magician
Kids
Dark
Dark Side
Hitchcock
Lovers
Sides
Cared
Lover
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To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.
Teller / Magician
Point Of View
Good View People
Intrinsic
Merely
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Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
Teller / Magician
Controlled
Done
Perception
Testing
Magicians
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Teller / Magician
Magician
Your Own Something
Becomes
Lie
Lets
Notice
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I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
Teller / Magician
Performing
Life Always My Life
Assumed
Life My Life Always
Happily
Theaters
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If there isn't at least the threat of violence in art, it tends to be kind of tiresome.
Teller / Magician
Be Kind
Tiresome
Tends
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If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Teller / Magician
Gore
Violence
Directions
Shakespeare
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Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.
Teller / Magician
Information
Magic
Sensory
Understanding
Viewers
Digest
Manipulating
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Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.
Teller / Magician
Reality
Seems
Simple
Eyes
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Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.
Teller / Magician
Comedy
Team
Nobody
Fan
Foremost
Magicians
Penn
Teller
Thinks
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Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.
Teller / Magician
Magic
Might
Spending
Just
More
Time Sometimes More
Anyone
Anyone Else
Else
Expect
Reasonably
Something
Than
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Generally, magicians don't know what to say, so they say stupid and redundant crap like, 'Here I am holding a red ball.'
Teller / Magician
Red
Redundant
Stupid
Ball
Generally
Holding
Magicians
They Say
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Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.
Teller / Magician
Absolute
Spare
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The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.
Teller / Magician
Conservatives
Entirely
Essentially
Hijacked
Scouts
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If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that.
Teller / Magician
Beauty
Proud
Beat
Understands
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Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
Teller / Magician
Audience
Engaging
Magic
Psychology
Successful
Ask
Perform
Every Time
Experiment
Trick
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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.
Teller / Magician
Conversation
Intimacy
Shut Up
Silent
Confront
Forced
Onstage
Shut
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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.
Teller / Magician
Magic
Necks
Backs
Hairs
Penn
Stand Up
Teller
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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.'
Teller / Magician
Excuse
Hey
Time Work Your
Joke
Work Time Me
Street
Merely
Saying
Sir
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In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.
Teller / Magician
Bus
Decision
Make Believe
Mistake
Real Life
Begin
Dead
Coming
Corner
Leave
Street
Important Decision
Step
Street Corner
The Most Important
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Indian street magic tends to be very gory, blood and guts. One trick is for a magician to take a knife and appear to cut his kid's head almost off. The magician then says to the crowd, 'Well I can continue to cut off my son's head or you can all give me some money.' Then he wanders around and takes 10 rupees from everyone and restores his son.
Teller / Magician
Blood
Give Me
Guts
Indian
Magic
Son
Almost
Appear
Continue
Crowd
Cut
Street
Trick
Head
Says
Takes
Tends
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