Derren Brown Quotes

If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Actually, actually, when he first put us into hypnosis, he didn't know what he was going to get.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

I first read about hypnotism at school, and I used to do tricks like getting a really skinny guy to arm wrestle the local bully.

I was in Leeds, just starting out, and I was hypnotising one person up on stage. Suddenly I had members of the crowd unsuspectingly go to sleep on me as well.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.

By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me.

I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.

I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.

Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people.

Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.

I think hypnosis is entertaining. I believe it's real.

If you can control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his action. When you determine what a man shall think you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one.

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who'd gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

We must be engineers of souls.

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