Derren Brown Quotes

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Derren Brown

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : February 27, 1971

I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.

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I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.

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What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.

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Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

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If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.

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I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.

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Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

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Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.

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I'm a British psychological illusionist, which is a term I made up, but I do these kind of mind-reading and psychological experiments. There's nothing magical about it at all.

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If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

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The stuff that I do and enjoy is normally quite similar to a lot of the stuff that psychics and spiritualists would enjoy themselves. I just have a different approach to wanting to find out how things really work, or a sense of, I guess, responsibility about honesty and so on.

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People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.

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I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.

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I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were just thinking that everything I was doing was some kind of weird mind game, which is hysterical, really, because I couldn't be any less like that.

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A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.

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I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy.

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Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.

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Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.

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I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.

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People often think that you get the most of everything from having your face on the screen but its really, like musicians, when you hit the road. It's also where the most fun is, the adrenaline of it every night, giving this incredibly well rehearsed charismatic version of yourself every night and people hopefully loving you.

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