If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Magic, whether it's mind magic or conjuring, is about the cheapest and quickest way of impressing people, and I think if you… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place,… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator,… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
When I started doing magic I was quite obsessive about it. I didn't feel impressive and I had a strong desire to… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness. — Derren Brown Copy Share
I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If… — Derren Brown Copy Share
When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and… — Derren Brown Copy Share
People often think that you get the most of everything from having your face on the screen but its really, like musicians, when you… — Derren Brown Copy Share
Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks… — Derren Brown Copy Share
“I'd rather cut off my own balls with blunt bacon scissors than host a dinner party.” — Derren Brown Copy Share
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing… — Derren Brown Copy Share
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty — Derren Brown Copy Share
I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were… — Derren Brown Copy Share
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators… — Derren Brown Copy Share
I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just… — Derren Brown Copy Share
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang… — Derren Brown Copy Share
Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice… — Derren Brown Copy Share
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… — Derren Brown Copy Share
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer. — Derren Brown Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dea/derren-brown-3112_aces_when-the-magician-clicks-his-fingers-and_2100588.jpg)
