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title: "2 Childish Quotes By Derren Brown"
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> [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 to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/guilt-s-too-strong-a-word-but-there-is-this-niggling-worry-that-i-m-a/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

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> [Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/magic-has-both-feet-planted-in-cheap-vaudeville-and-childish/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/derren-brown-3112_art_magic-has-both-feet-planted-in-cheap-vau_2286499.jpg)

## Other authors on Childish

## More by Derren Brown

> [The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/the-single-most-valuable-human-trait-the-one-quality-every/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/i-think-you-can-be-sceptical-and-still-do-things-that-are-in-a-joyful/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/when-you-re-with-your-partner-i-think-does-everyone-else-sing-and-do/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [People often think that you get the most of everything from having your face on the screen but its really, like musicians, when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/people-often-think-that-you-get-the-most-of-everything-from-having/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/mentalist-is-the-technical-term-for-what-i-do-and-it-covers/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [“I'd rather cut off my own balls with blunt bacon scissors than host a dinner party.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/i-d-rather-cut-off-my-own-balls-with-blunt-bacon-scissors-than-host-a/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/there-s-something-a-bit-embarrassing-about-saying-you-re-a-magician/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/our-fascination-with-weather-its-caprices-and-changes-as-an-antidote/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/i-have-got-friends-that-i-have-got-to-know-and-found-out-that-the/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/magic-is-a-performance-and-a-performance-should-have-an-honesty-a/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/i-m-probably-more-persuasive-than-the-next-person-if-i-want-to-be-but/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/i-was-part-of-a-very-uncool-group-it-was-a-group-that-liked-classical/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/guilt-s-too-strong-a-word-but-there-is-this-niggling-worry-that-i-m-a/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/if-someone-does-not-have-a-specific-charity-they-would-like-to-donate/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

> [If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/derren-brown/if-people-have-very-big-personalities-i-find-myself-feeling-i-have/)

[Derren Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/derren-brown/)

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