It's only the losers named Dave that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think. They're named Dave.
Penn JilletteYou have in Vegas the most heterogeneous audience you're gonna get anywhere in the country. In Boston, Chicago, Miami, you know who goes to the theater. In Vegas, you have people who only see one theater show a year, and it's in Vegas.
Penn JilletteWhereas 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.
Penn JilletteJuggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me.
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