Derren Victor Brown Quotes

This is the comforting and lovely Leadenhall Market, an accommodating inter-mammary cleft in the bosom of old Londinium.

Derren Victor Brown

Many things we misread as meaningful are quite ordinary coincidences. For example, its not unlikely that occasionally someone will phone you after youve been thinking about them. But we give these things value to make sense of our lives.

Derren Victor Brown

So, what I do is a mixture of genuine psychological technique as well as all the chicanery and showmanship of the magician but it was enormously tempting to see what a clinical psychologist would make of it.

Derren Victor Brown

Now you know that your headmistress, Miss Davis, was going to come in here and just check that you were all going to be well behaved. She cant do that because, as many of you probably know, she cant be here today, er, because her pants fell down earlier on. Its not funny. If any of you see her, dont make a fuss because its a bit embarrassing for her, OK? Alright? Its not funny.

Derren Victor Brown

A lot is said about children having stronger psychic ability because theyre so unjaded and innocent. This excruciating view of children is generally expounded by people who think like children and perhaps can be forgiven.

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Fingers: Weve all got them and we shouldnt be embarrassed about them.

Derren Victor Brown

There are three things I noticed about being thirty-three: Failing memory, hair loss and failing memory.

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I like my parrot, Figaro. Not in a wrong way I mean, yes, hell do anything for a mouth full of seed but nothing tacky.

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Short and balding.

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I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.

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Shopping Malls: Modern cathedrals to spending money. Theyre designed to disorientate us and make us stay longer than we need to. Every brick is there to manipulate us to buy.

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A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us even induce or remove pain.

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Every day when you leave your home you give away more than you could ever imagine about who you are and what you do.

Derren Victor Brown

For me, the most enjoyable aspect of going out and performing is that I never know how susceptible people will be to my methods.

Derren Victor Brown

One of the techniques that I use to imitate psychic phenomena is photographic memory.

Derren Victor Brown