I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them,… — 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
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
In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
For every moment of concentration there is an equal moment of relaxation. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible… — 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
The Stoics appear during a huge time of constant wars and real political strife. And it became very popular, I think, because… — 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
