Derren Brown Quotes

Derren Brown is an English mentalist, illusionist, and author. Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, Brown has produced several other shows for the stage and television in both series and specials. His 2006 stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes and his 2012 show Svengali won him two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment. He made his Broadway debut with his 2019 stage show Secret. He has also written books for magicians as well as the general public.

Brown does not claim to possess any supernatural powers and his acts are often designed to expose the methods of those who do assert such claims, such as faith healers and mediums. In his performances, he often says that his effects are achieved through "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship". Wikipedia  

✵ 27. February 1971
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Famous Derren Brown Quotes

“(DVD introduction) Well, welcome to your very own DVD of me, DVB, and ‘Mind Control’. If you weren’t expecting me and thought you were buying Reginald Perrin, then press eject now before you begin vomiting. Otherwise, please, please ensure that you are sitting in an extreme level of comfort, preferably in pre-worn slippers and, I trust, with your extended family around you. If you have seen the film ‘Signs’ and would like to wear the pointy tin foil hats now would be a good time to put them on you can’t be too careful. Well, pphhh, goodness me, er, it’s been a meteoric rise over these last years. The money and sex are exhausting and I have you the viewer to thank. Thanks. We’ve put together some of the pieces from the specials and series in glistening digital format, each pixel hand picked and gently polished and brought to you in wide-sound, surround-screen enjoyment. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I’ll enjoy the royalties from this, which is enormously. If you don’t like it and HMV won’t take it back because you’ve got sticky all over it then the disc makes an excellent beer coaster or wheels for a space truck or can be immense fun just putting it on your finger and [waggling it], like that. But I hope you do like it. When I first started developing these techniques I had no idea that they were going to prove at all popular and for all my nancing about and staring I’m actually really excited to have a DVD out and can’t wait to go and find it in Discount Books & Puzzles next to the Dizzie Gillespie CD box sets and disappointing erotica. I hope you like it and if you do, please go and buy another one.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“(In answer to the question ‘How would you describe yourself in three words?’) Short and balding.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

Derren Brown Quotes about people

“For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

Derren Brown Quotes about thinking

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Derren Brown Quotes

“Fingers: We’ve all got them and we shouldn’t be embarrassed about them.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.”

Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)

“If you approach any psychic with any sort of scepticism you’ll see through pretty much all of it unless they happen to get lucky.”

Other TV and web appearances, The Enemies of Reason (Richard Dawkins)

“People are always saying, “Can you use your skills to get extraordinarily beautiful women into bed?” Well… yes, yes I can.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“All told, kindness is not fashionable”

Books, There’s Probably No God - The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas (2009)

“Paul [McKenna] and I have been working on making each other’s hair fall out for years now, with some success.”

TV recordings of stage shows, Svengali (2012), Svengali tour brochure

“The Barnum Statements are very famous and well known about and there’s a great experiment… There’s a terrific experiment that was done on this with students. I’ve filmed this myself. We did it with three different groups of people across the world, where you have… everybody in the group is given a reading, a personality reading. Normally beforehand there’s some nonsense about asking for their birth date or getting some objects off them - so there’s some sort of process apparently involved - and they’re given a reading. And it’s a long reading, it’s a very detailed personality reading and they all get one individually, they’re all asked to read it and, invariably, they will all say afterwards that it’s very, very accurate, that it was not at all vague or ambiguous or what people might expect and they’ll give it 85, 90, 95 percent accuracy. I’ve seen this happen and people are amazed by it. And then you get them to swap with each other and say “perhaps you can identify someone else by their reading”. Then they realise they’ve all been given exactly the same thing which was written months ago before I even met them and the statements that fill those sorts of readings are generally Barnum Statements. Barnum statements are things which essentially apply to anybody – this is only part of the cold-reading skill but it’s a major part of it… PT Barnum… “something for everyone” and, famously “a sucker is born every minute””

Other TV and web appearances, The Enemies of Reason (Richard Dawkins)

“Frankly, I think I’m just a balding, goateed show off.”

TV recordings of stage shows, Derren Brown: The Gathering (2005) based on Derren Brown: Live, Derren Brown: Live tour brochure

“Walthamstow Stadium: Where hundreds of men, who all look like my dad, come to watch some thin dogs running around.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD

“By the end of the tonight, all but one of these students will be dead. That’s not true. I'd give them about a week.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown: Séance (2004)

“Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.”

Books, Harry Houdini on Deception (foreword) (2009)

“This is the comforting and lovely Leadenhall Market, an accommodating inter-mammary cleft in the bosom of old Londinium.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

“Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.”

TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)

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