Derren Brown famous quotes

07-12-2025

Have your cake and eat it... there's no other reason to have a cake
-- Derren Brown

#Cake #Reason
I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
-- Derren Brown

#Testers
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
-- Derren Brown

#Children #People #Magic
Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.
-- Derren Brown

#Magic #Dull #Tricks
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.
-- Derren Brown

#Honesty #Insulting #Magic
Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.
-- Derren Brown

#Magic
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out oneâ€™s least impressive qualities.
-- Derren Brown

#Mean #Desire #Quality
There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.
-- Derren Brown

#Kids #Being Real #Upset
Iâ€™m a big fan of parrots - I think theyâ€™re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.
-- Derren Brown

#Thinking #Voice #Interesting
Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It wasÂ brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.
-- Derren Brown

#Dad #Archer #House
If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex.
-- Derren Brown

#Doe #Would Be #Charity
Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
-- Derren Brown

#Kids #Skills #People
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.
-- Derren Brown

#Kids #Thinking #People
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.
-- Derren Brown

#Art #Interesting #Magic
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of their complex, troubled existences. To practise anything other than kindness towards them, to treat them in any way save generously, is to quietly deny their humanity.
-- Derren Brown

#Kindness #People #Humanity
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.
-- Derren Brown

#Compassion #Blood #Order
Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose.
-- Derren Brown

#Years #Twenties #Add
I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't
-- Derren Brown

#Cheating #Fun #Real
I would like a bit of me - thatâ€™s how I put my back out!
-- Derren Brown
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
-- Derren Brown

#People #Goes On #Terrible
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
-- Derren Brown

#Kindness #Quality #Adults
When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.
-- Derren Brown

#Real #Hands #Magic
When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.
-- Derren Brown

#Block #Navy #Pieces

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