„Every week we go to the supermarket and every week we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the packaging and layout of the goods.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
Frases de Derren Brown
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Derren Brown
Fecha de nacimiento: 27. Febrero 1971
Derren Brown is an English mentalist, illusionist, and author. Since his television debut with Derren Brown: Mind Control in 2000, Brown has produced several other shows for the stage and television in both series and specials. His 2006 stage show Something Wicked This Way Comes and his 2012 show Svengali won him two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment. He made his Broadway debut with his 2019 stage show Secret. He has also written books for magicians as well as the general public.
Brown does not claim to possess any supernatural powers and his acts are often designed to expose the methods of those who do assert such claims, such as faith healers and mediums. In his performances, he often says that his effects are achieved through "magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection, and showmanship". Wikipedia
Frases Derren Brown
„(In answer to the question ‘Were you at all scared of Chris Ryan?’) I wasn’t scared of Chris Ryan although I was a little bit put off by his white jeans. As a straight man that’s been in the SAS I found that surprising and it did throw me a little bit..“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD
„The potential for self-loathing comes from the unavoidable problem that one is engaging in a childish, fraudulent activity: although it has the capacity to delight and amaze, the performer is also a hair’s breadth from being justifiably treated like a silly child. It is, after all, just tricks.“
Books, Confessions of a Conjuror (2010)
„Vienna. It means nothing to me but to Orson Welles, it was the setting for one of his finest performances - and a place to get huge plates of cheap rich food. I followed the footsteps of my hero, which are still visible in the concrete, to the world famous Ferris wheel.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
„I remember reading about a story about a guy – and this was in England, and no more than a couple of years ago. He’d gone to see a psychic, and was told there was a curse on his family, and in order to release the curse, he had to bring with him the following week £5,000 and burn it… if he didn’t do that, either he or his son would die. The scam is quite a common one – the money is put in an envelope, and apparently burnt, but of course the ‘psychic’ secretly switches the envelope and burns an envelope full of newspaper. What happened was the guy went away, and he knew he couldn’t raise £5000, but didn’t want his son to die; so he killed himself.“
TV recordings of stage shows, Something Wicked This Way Comes (2006), Something Wicked This Way Comes tour brochure
„Remember how you used to try and make kids turn round at school by staring at the back of their heads? And how they used to go home early crying with blood coming out of their ears?“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
„This is the comforting and lovely Leadenhall Market, an accommodating inter-mammary cleft in the bosom of old Londinium.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
„A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us – even induce or remove pain.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD
„A lot is said about children having stronger psychic ability because they’re so unjaded and innocent. This excruciating view of children is generally expounded by people who think like children and perhaps can be forgiven.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
„Walthamstow Stadium: Where hundreds of men, who all look like my dad, come to watch some thin dogs running around.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Mind Control (1999–2000) or Inside Your Mind on DVD
„Frankly, I think I’m just a balding, goateed show off.“
TV recordings of stage shows
„Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.“
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Trick of the Mind (2004–2006)
