Derren Brown Quotes

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Derren Brown

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : February 27, 1971

Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.

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In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.

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That's how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little rent. It was lovely, and part of me still misses that very lazy lifestyle. I was known as the magician on the street, and I used to dress a little eccentrically in a cloak.

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When I started doing magic I was quite obsessive about it. I didn't feel impressive and I had a strong desire to impress people. I was putting all my creative energy into learning and performing tricks, and it helps if you're not in relationships or doing the stuff other people are doing. But it's not necessarily a healthy way of living.

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Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks with a mental theme.

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There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.

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I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.

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For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.

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I'm probably a little shyer than people imagine.

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I'm not very sociable. If I get invited to a glamorous event I probably won't go. That world does not really appeal to me.

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I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.

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It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.

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I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but the payoff is the wow factor.

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A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

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I don't want to be some extreme therapist. Although seeing someone's life change for the better is a really moving thing.

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Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.

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I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.

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When touring I get to travel around with my best friends, do a show I love and I'm confident people will enjoy, and have all the adrenalin that comes with performing.

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I once had Rachel McAdams over for lunch, when she was with Michael Sheen, who's a friend of mine.

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