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I'll sometimes go a week or two without tweeting, and then when I'm in the mood, tweet loads, and clog up people's in-boxes. It's a moment when you feel like sharing something.Collection: Derren
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.Collection: Derren
As a performer you often feel that you're the child and everyone else is a grown-up.Collection: Derren
Guilt's too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I'm a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.Collection: Derren
I'm finally having my TV removed and replaced by a tropical fish tank, which I hope will provide more interesting viewing.Collection: Derren
Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.Collection: Derren
I am a movie geek, yes!Collection: Derren
Most people's fear of being in front of an audience can generally be conquered by being completely on top of what it is they've got to do.Collection: Derren
When I was at University I had a sort of fear about going to the gym and that kind of blokeish environment, which was rooted in a feeling of total inadequacy, which is what fear is.Collection: Derren
I came across the idea of running towards the things that frighten you. Once you go and do it, you realise that the fear of it is far more powerful than actually doing it.Collection: Derren
So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!Collection: Derren
I never quite know how to describe what I do. I normally just say, 'Oh, I'm a magician', which probably puts fairly naff ideas in people's minds but is pleasantly conversation-stopping.Collection: Derren
Since turning 40 I happily moisturise - I have what's called a regime - but I'm always in two minds because I have no idea if I'm completely wasting my money. They feel nice when they are on but I can't stop wondering, 'Am I succumbing to the same nonsense I try to fight against in other areas?'Collection: Derren
Yes, I've had a slight feeling of wanting to reclaim some of the lifestyle I had in my 20s, which means poncing around in what amounts to pirate clothes.Collection: Derren
The process of coming out is normally very disappointing. It's not that people react badly to it - they really don't care.Collection: Derren
That was how I started, as a hypnotist. But I didn't like the kind of gigs I was being offered. I didn't want to embarrass people.Collection: Derren
For every moment of concentration there is an equal moment of relaxation.Collection: Derren
Magic should get under people's skins.Collection: Derren
Everything you do is about creating an experience in the viewer's head. If you're rude or irritating as a performer, then your magic is irritating.Collection: Derren
In recent years there's been a lot of philosophical theorising about how important magic is, and how it takes us back to a childlike state of astonishment. I think all this is just nonsense. Magic isn't meaningful or important other than how you're performing it in that moment.Collection: Derren
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.Collection: Derren
When I started doing magic I was quite obsessive about it. I didn't feel impressive and I had a strong desire to impress people. I was putting all my creative energy into learning and performing tricks, and it helps if you're not in relationships or doing the stuff other people are doing. But it's not necessarily a healthy way of living.Collection: Derren
Mentalist is the technical term for what I do and it covers everything from psychic medium through Uri Geller, through to magicians doing tricks with a mental theme.Collection: Derren
If you aim to be controversial for the sake of it you'd end up with a very thin and meaningless show.Collection: Derren
There was something about me even at an early age that enjoyed charming and manipulating.Collection: Derren
For a long time, I couldn't just sit and have a conversation with people at a table without showing them a trick. I thought you just had to impress, it was about impressing, which of course is what you do if you don't feel very impressive.Collection: Derren
I'm probably a little shyer than people imagine.Collection: Derren
I'm not very sociable. If I get invited to a glamorous event I probably won't go. That world does not really appeal to me.Collection: Derren
I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.Collection: Derren
It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.Collection: Derren
I love touring, more than anything. Doing the stage show is a more enjoyable process than TV. There are no safeguards but the payoff is the wow factor.Collection: Derren
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people. You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.Collection: Derren
I don't want to be some extreme therapist. Although seeing someone's life change for the better is a really moving thing.Collection: Derren
Psychic, illusionist... I'm just doing the things that I find interesting and worthwhile.Collection: Derren
I really do like being on stage. Compared to television I have a lot more control - it's a lot more relaxed and loose.Collection: Derren
When touring I get to travel around with my best friends, do a show I love and I'm confident people will enjoy, and have all the adrenalin that comes with performing.Collection: Derren
Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.Collection: Derren
I once had Rachel McAdams over for lunch, when she was with Michael Sheen, who's a friend of mine.Collection: Derren