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We go through life owned by the stories we tell ourselves which are often historic and charged narratives - things we've learnt since childhood that we don't even consciously realise are going on.
— Derren Brown
Relationships are very good at making you more conscious of yourself. Especially as you get older, you develop a crust around your madnesses and shortcomings that take someone else to recognize them.
— Derren Brown
I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy.
— Derren Brown
Hypnosis is just suggestibility; you see it in certain people.
— Derren Brown
You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.
— Derren Brown
Kindness and compassion aren't political qualities even though they get politicized.
— Derren Brown
I wore a cloak for many years, I had long hair, I may have had a drop earring for a week and I fancied myself as a philosopher poet but was somewhere more in the gay female leisure pirate.
— Derren Brown
The people who are most susceptible to hypnosis - the rugger bugger types - were also the ones who intimidated me most at school, so on an unconscious level I suppose I'm turning the tables on them.
— Derren Brown
I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.
— Derren Brown
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.
— Derren Brown
When you're with your partner, I think, does everyone else sing and do the stupid voices and all that stuff that I do and always have done?
— Derren Brown
Being gay facilitated my capacity for shame. As a child, I carried around this thing that gradually became this big dark secret. When I came out in a newspaper interview at 30 I was expecting the reaction the following day to be like the climax of 'Dead Poets Society,' but actually no one really cared.
— Derren Brown
What I do is rooted in magic - it's got a big foot planted firmly in conjuring, even if the other foot's planted in psychological techniques.
— Derren Brown
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.
— Derren Brown
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.
— Derren Brown
A magic trick of any sort works because you tell yourself a story about what you see. And politicians use this all the time in their own way by throwing a load of statistics at you when things don't quite follow and then saying, 'So therefore blah,' and you believe that 'blah' thing because of the confusion that's come before.
— Derren Brown
If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.
— Derren Brown
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.
— Derren Brown
I have got friends that I have got to know and found out that, the first few times I was with them, they were just thinking that everything I was doing was some kind of weird mind game, which is hysterical, really, because I couldn't be any less like that.
— Derren Brown
A bedrock of insecurity made me want to impress and want to be the center of attention.
— Derren Brown
People often think that you get the most of everything from having your face on the screen but its really, like musicians, when you hit the road. It's also where the most fun is, the adrenaline of it every night, giving this incredibly well rehearsed charismatic version of yourself every night and people hopefully loving you.
— Derren Brown
If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing because it might feel disingenuous. In the same way, I don't show people magic tricks in social situations any more.
— Derren Brown
I had a natural aptitude for wanting to be the centre of attention and a definite skill for annoying people.
— Derren Brown
The big, fun, ambitious ideas tend to come out of the frustration of talking for too long about the smaller, weaselly ones.
— Derren Brown
I like films that sort of play out in one confined area. Films that have a feeling that you're watching a play, a contained environment and a creeping tension.
— Derren Brown
When you're made to be frightened within a safe context, like watching a horror film, you have that tension/release which triggers all those happy chemicals that feel good.
— Derren Brown
I think it's important to be sort of nice.
— Derren Brown
In my 20s, I just had to be the centre of attention all the time. I was quite eccentric.
— Derren Brown
When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.
— Derren Brown
I don't like big spiders in the house.
— Derren Brown
I never really enjoy the thought of fancy dress.
— Derren Brown
Suggestibility is a very loose term. You may not be the sort of person who responds well to a hypnotist on stage, but you might find, for example, that a doctor administering a placebo to you is something you respond well to.
— Derren Brown
Sexuality is often tied in with something you feel you lack in yourself and look for in others.
— Derren Brown
I went to a party when I was a student and they had a mynah bird up in the bedroom where people put their coats. I was completely captivated - I just sat there all night talking to it. The next day I passed a pet shop and they had a conure - it's a little parakeet - in the window. I bought it, not knowing what it was or how to look after it.
— Derren Brown
That's how I lived for 10 years in Bristol after graduating. I just stayed in my student flat and paid very little rent. It was lovely, and part of me still misses that very lazy lifestyle. I was known as the magician on the street, and I used to dress a little eccentrically in a cloak.
— Derren Brown
Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.
— Derren Brown
And the nature of magic is all in the person's experience. Whether the magician is using a highly complex sleight of hand or he's just got two cards that are the same, it doesn't matter: it's how it's sold and how magical it is for the person that matters.
— Derren Brown
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting.
— Derren Brown
In real life, when I can avoid anything stressful, I do.
— Derren Brown
I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?
— Derren Brown
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.
— Derren Brown
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.
— Derren Brown
I was a Christian when I was young and didn't know any better.
— Derren Brown
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.
— Derren Brown
I was part of a very uncool group. It was a group that liked classical music. They were known as the Music School Gang or, less charitably, the Poof Gang.
— Derren Brown
I'm a British psychological illusionist, which is a term I made up, but I do these kind of mind-reading and psychological experiments. There's nothing magical about it at all.
— Derren Brown
The stuff that I do and enjoy is normally quite similar to a lot of the stuff that psychics and spiritualists would enjoy themselves. I just have a different approach to wanting to find out how things really work, or a sense of, I guess, responsibility about honesty and so on.
— Derren Brown
I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.
— Derren Brown
Sometimes you need to be aware of the bigger picture you are missing.
— Derren Brown
I think the sheer hell of trying to get a film made; I don't know if it would ultimately be worth it. The sort of format that I have, these TV things, sit somewhere between documentaries and reality shows and entertainment shows and dramas.
— Derren Brown
The joy of doing the TV or something like 'Sacrifice' isn't really the process of doing it; the joy is going through this real-life experience.
— Derren Brown
It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.
— Derren Brown
I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.
— Derren Brown
I remember Doritos launched a new flavour and the question was whether I could use my skills - as they perceived them - to make people desire and want to try this new flavour. But I like to be in control of the things I do and feel proud of them.
— Derren Brown
Glenn Close is my favourite actress and she came to see the show in London once which was giddying.
— Derren Brown
Not everything is about causing controversy. That would be a very boring way to go.
— Derren Brown
In terms of self-esteem and confidence I think I'm generally quite healthy.
— Derren Brown
I had no sense of 'Gotta work hard to be famous.' Never have done, and still don't.
— Derren Brown
I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.
— Derren Brown
I like to eat other people's food in restaurants.
— Derren Brown
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