Quotes by Penn Jillette

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

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.