I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.
Penn JilletteDirect confrontation, direct conversation is real respect. And it's amazing how many people get that.
Penn JilletteThe characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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.
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