Penn Jillette Quotes

I've always been able to keep my private life separate from my business.

Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

You can get too close as a team. You need time away from each other. You change in the same dressing room, you play on the same cricket field, you stay in the same hotel, you travel in the same planes and buses. C'mon - this business of everyone holding hands and being pally is nonsense.

I just want to stay professional.

I was either told or I realised on my own terms that if you're going to be star-struck with the people you're working with, you're not going to work very well.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

I just have to make sure I maintain my professionalism.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.

I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

The hardest thing about working with your partner is that the work starts to become first.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.

I'm a businessman. I bring my bat and glove and attache case to the office and go to work. I don't give a damn if the other workers at the office like me or not.

You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.