Penn Jillette Quotes

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

No human is completely fearless.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Tashan' is not for the lily-livered.

It takes a lot of guts to get on stage.

You walk into an arena with 10,000 people and no security and everybody hating you, it takes some gumption.

You just go on your nerve.

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

I think that when you have audacity, you will get polarization.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

You can buy muscles, but you can't buy COJONES!

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

So carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. You may still falter or fail, but you always know that you pushed hard and aimed high. Take a leap of faith. Fear not. Courage is the ultimate career move.

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel.

There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

I got balls the size of grapefruits!

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.