Penn Jillette

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1955 age 0

   Born

2. 2024 age 69

   CreditBorderlands

3. 2025 age 70

   CreditMarty Supreme

• DSDee Snider2 titles
• GTGeorge Takei1 title
• TCTimothée Chalamet1 title
• CBCate Blanchett1 title
• GPGwyneth Paltrow1 title
• JBJack Black1 title
• AGAriana Greenblatt1 title
• AAAvi Arad1 title
• EREli Roth1 title
• AKAnthony Katagas1 title

• Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Penn turned to me […] "Do I have to call him [Prince Charles] 'Your Majesty' or any of that shit? […] And what about bowing? I have to bow? We don't bow in America. […] I won't get put in the Tower of London or anything?" […] I reassured him on these points. No Highnessing, no kowtowing. At last the Prince reaches Penn, who immediately falls almost prostrate to the floor. "Your Majesty Highness, Your Royal Sir…" and so on and so forth, babbling like a gibbon on speed. The Prince passes on to me and whoever was the other side of me without turning a hair. Seen it all before. After he had gone, I watched Penn, an enormous man, crouching on the floor, rolling about, beating the planks of the stage, sobbing, stuffing his fist in his mouth and moaning up to the fly-tower: "Why did I do that? What came over me? What power do they have? I betrayed my country!"

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• We can't start getting picky because we've got enough food; that's just self-centered and racist. Unless you and yours are starving, you need to shut the fuck up!

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it.

  Penn Jillette, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Years active

1974–

Instruments

bass guitar, guitar

Education

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College