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About Derren Brown
Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic.
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“All told, kindness is not fashionable”
“Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.”
“I don’t believe in spiritualism. Personally, I find it quite ugly.”
“I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.”
“Fingers: We’ve all got them and we shouldn’t be embarrassed about them.”
“I can’t drive, play football without crying, or successfully use a PS3 controller.”
“One of the techniques that I use to imitate psychic phenomena is photographic memory.”
“Russian Roulette should not, under any circumstances, be copied. It is extremely dangerous.”
“The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.”
“Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.”
“I am embarrassingly incompetent at football or any kind of team sport. I’m so bad it would anger you.”
“There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.”
“In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a person’s features.”
“A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us – even induce or remove pain.”
“Walthamstow Stadium: Where hundreds of men, who all look like my dad, come to watch some thin dogs running around.”
“This is the comforting and lovely Leadenhall Market, an accommodating inter-mammary cleft in the bosom of old Londinium.”
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Derren Brown on Criminology
“In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a person’s features.”
Derren Brown on Dexterity
“Yet what makes the show what it is - a truly mesmerising theatrical event that should live forever in the memory - is the magic and the variety, speed and dexterity with which Brown performs it.”
Derren Brown on Self-deception
“The capacity for self-deception, rarely acknowledged or understood by those who offer us supernatural answers to our problems, is huge: as easy as it is to make a medium’s cold-reading statements ‘fit’ our own situation and come to believe that he must have some paranormal insight, it is hardly any more difficult for a would-be psychic with an average ego, upon hearing frequently positive feedback, to believe over time that he must be blessed with a special gift. It’s harder to think you’re doing it for real when you’re tossing tambourines in the dark or have ready-made ectoplasm stuffed into your mouth or bottom.”
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“It’s almost like a bad shock. You kind of think no, no. Your mind wants to think no, this is not happening, it’s not real, it’s not true, I reject it, I reject everything about it. Fantastic. Quite brilliant. I could sit down and try and work out how it was done and various elements of it. I just don’t want to. I just want to burn him at a stake and watch his witch's heart bubble. It’s extraordinary. Great trick. – Stephen Fry - ''Trick of the Mind", series 1, episode 1.”
About Derren Brown
Derren Victor Brown (born 27 February 1971) is a British illusionist, mentalist, painter, writer and sceptic.