B.J. Penn Quotes

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

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.

If you want to turn out an atheist child, unconditional love constantly is a good way to do it.

In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.

The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people.

Bob Barr is not crazy enough for my taste.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

The reason I'm an I.B.M.-type guy today is that I really needed a laptop back in 1986, and I just couldn't wait for the Powerbook.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

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

If there are two things Penn & Teller stand for, it's the truth & lying, although not necessarily in that order.

I came to magic absolutely hating magic on a very, very deep level.

Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

'Celebrity Apprentice' has more integrity and is the most straightforward show I've ever seen.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.

As much as I disagreed with every second of 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' the fact that it is out made me jump for joy.

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.

There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I love when violent, dangerous art is done by people who are not violent and dangerous. I love that when George Romero was making 'Dawn of the Dead,' he was coaching his son's little league team.

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.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

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.

I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business.

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

Thou shalt not take anything on faith

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

Make deals with people, not paper.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.

Someone who is a good person should have no fear of the government whatsoever.

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.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

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.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.