I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn’t mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy. Penn Jillette Read Quote
The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things. Penn Jillette Read Quote
If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it’s the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order. Penn Jillette Read Quote
You have two choices with Obama. You either believe that he is a man of Christ… or you think he’s a liar. And I’m surprised by the number of atheist free thinkers that support Obama, and their argument is essentially, ‘He’s lying about being religious ’cause you have to do that to get elected.’ It’s a horrible reason to like somebody. Penn Jillette Read Quote
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. Penn Jillette Read Quote
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. Penn Jillette Read Quote
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were – it’s all the way back. It’s New English puritanical tradition. Penn Jillette Read Quote
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. Penn Jillette Read Quote
