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
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
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — 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 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
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
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people. — 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
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
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
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