It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling,… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“I'd rather cut off my own balls with blunt bacon scissors than host a dinner party.” — 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 grown-up doing… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
