American Quotes

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.

The only place we were really told to tone it down - where other people would use the word censorship, but I wouldn't - was when we did MTV right after the Beavis and Butt-head thing.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don't believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you're being censored.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.

It wasn't success, because Teller and I, by the time Asparagus Valley got together - within a year, we had achieved all our goals. I mean, our goal was to earn our living doing exactly what we wanted. Which is many people's goal.

In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

I want my name back.