Teller

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.

I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

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.

Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.

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.

Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

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.'