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… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying 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
For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick.… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves. — 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
The people who are most susceptible to hypnosis - the rugger bugger types - were also the ones who intimidated me most… — 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
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own. — 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
If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though! — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly… — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems — 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
