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If you approach any psychic with any sort of scepticism you’ll see through pretty much all of it unless they happen to get lucky.
Under British law, you’re not allowed to fire a live round unless you are a qualified armourer. This is why the live game has to take place overseas.
Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live (2003)
Our tendency to think that we're not predictable is probably one of our more predictable traits.
Trick of the Mind (2004)
Memory tricks, amongst other things which I’ll show you, have got me banned from a lot of Casinos in this country.
Mind Control (1999)
This is the comforting and lovely Leadenhall Market, an accommodating inter-mammary cleft in the bosom of old Londinium.
Trick of the Mind (2004)
I control the conditions so my testers become my testees.
Mind Control (1999)
A good communicator affects our physiology. The power of voice can entrance us – even induce or remove pain.
Mind Control (1999)
Some people like to talk of intuition as a way of knowing truth; that gut reactions are as good as evidence based facts. It’s a really silly way of thinking...
Trick of the Mind (2004)
How many powerful memories are triggered by smell and taste? Your mother’s old perfume, the smell your father’s breath, the taste of the soap they’d make you eat.
Trick of the Mind (2004)
One of the reasons I enjoy going to the Opera is the spectacle of an audience enraptured. Their emotions are engaged, their passions brought to the fore, they become highly sensitive.
Mind Control (1999)
By the end of the tonight, all but one of these students will be dead. That’s not true. I'd give them about a week.
Derren Brown: Séance (2004)
The Ouija board is a really interesting phenomenon. It works by something called idiomotor suggestion. You do actually push the glass yourself you just have no awareness of doing it.
Derren Brown: Séance (2004)
Do you think astrologists, palm readers and the like can really tell everything about you? That your personality can be read from your birth date, your hand or from sensing vibrations? Very possible.
Trick of the Mind (2004)
Some athletes use the mind to try and improve stamina and strength. Can I use my mind to take it away?
Mind Control (1999)
People are always saying, “Can you use your skills to get extraordinarily beautiful women into bed?” Well... yes, yes I can.
Mind Control (1999)
I don’t believe in spiritualism. Personally, I find it quite ugly.
Derren Brown: Séance (2004)
Few things make me more livid than insulting bad theatre of any sort. Conversely, perfectly realised and exquisitely elegant performance can move me deeply and reduce me to sobbing like a big girl.
Absolute Magic - A Model for Powerful Close-Up Performance (2003)
I have had no formal training in painting: I gave up Art A level because I was sick of drawing peppers.
Portraits (2009)
(In answer to the question ‘How would you describe yourself in three words?’) Short and balding.
Mind Control (1999)
From psychics to spiritualists to palm readers to graphologists to astrologists, the ‘expert’ in question either just simply deluded and naive or they’re using a skill called cold-reading.