Top 30 Puppets Quotes

Today’s policies and political activity treat people like pawns. More than ever before, attempts will be made to use people like cogs in a wheel. People will be handled like puppets on a string, and everyone will think that this reflects the greatest progress imaginable.

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don’t understand it.

Once I’m on stage, there’s just no time for a sip of water – I’ve always got my hands in puppets! My voice is raw by the time I finish.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

I didn’t bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

I directed the play ‘Amadeus’ with puppets way back in the day for theater. I also studied puppetry at the Eugene and Neil Center with a lot of the ‘Sesame Street’ people, so I do have a little bit of a history with puppetry.

I always wanted to be on ‘Sesame Street,’ that kind of a thing, puppets and fun and original songs and fairy tales.

I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.

I’m always going to have the puppets, probably not for the rest of my life, but I’m not going to stop doing ventriloquism anytime soon. I’m just going to add singing, recording songs, and maybe playing in a TV show.

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out – normal kid stuff. But then I’d hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, ‘Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.’

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.

I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.

I’m very creative – making music, making puppets, that’s my thing – but mainstream success and the demands that brings? No, not really for me.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It’s beyond my comprehension.

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You’re juggling ten balls instead of three.

Having watched ‘X Factor’ over the years, they just haven’t got it right. The male winners haven’t been believable. They look like puppets; they sound like puppets.

In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I’ve made over the years, and because I’m very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head.

Every ‘Star Wars’ film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key – probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You’re not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they’re exaggerated creatures.

I think I’ve got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I’m just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.

‘Petrushka’ was not conceived as a children’s ballet, even though it involves puppets. We’re on the outer limits of what’s child-appropriate here.

That’s the thing with animated films – I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.

While you’re testing out armatures of puppets, you’re also trying to find the proper visual vocabulary for the character and to come up with a guidebook of sorts for how a character will move and act.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it’s in the moment, and it’s seeing what will happen. It’s not something that is scripted.

‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.

People react differently to puppets than they do to human performers: they become more playful, more open.