Puppets Quotations

I'm sure in a lot of publishing houses that there is a frustration that people feel, that they're not in control, that they are puppets and the corporate bosses are manipulating the strings.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

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.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

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.

Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it. If it's a sock puppet, if it's a stool, I'll do it.

I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.

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.'

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

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.

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

I'm a talk-show junkie. I'd rather listen to real folks stumbling to express their own thoughts than to polished puppets reading what others have written.

You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters.

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet ...

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe.

What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making fun of the puppets for being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show.

But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.

And then after the success at Melbourne Comedy Festival, then we regrouped back in LA and we went back into workshopping and decided to develop a proper show and that's when we started working on "Stuffed and Unstrung," which is a much bigger and sharper version of "Puppet Up."

We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough."

he puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene.

So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.

A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.

There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger.

The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both!

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts, ... They can fight it out between them. Lady T and Corpse Bride will maybe do alternate parts, and I'll just do the voices.

Only puppets react to the string drawn by the wealthy.

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

I wish I could play puppets the rest of my life, ... You don't have to worry about hair and make-up. You're not trapped by your envelope.

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 can't speak for all the puppets in my show but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't looking forward to my spring Broadway debut, but we are all very excited to be playing the Hayes immediately after Sarah Jones' successful run there.

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.'

I was amazed about how he brought these characters to life, ... I was fascinated watching Paul Winchell, seeing how he interacted with these puppets and created this imaginary connection with them.

Please Note -- Any similarity between puppets and actual Presidential candidates is purely coincidental.

The Americans with their allies will fly out of Iraq very soon, and their puppets will leave even before the Americans.

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

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock puppets.

All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

We're not puppets on a string, but the shows are, and they get dangled and placed opposite one another. It's a business. There you are.

The sad thing is, when it comes to diet, is that even when well-intentioned Feds try to do right by us, they fail. Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness.

One gets the impression that other countries are suspicious that the secretary general and his aides are really puppets being manipulated by Washington.

It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.

It's like the kid in a school classroom who makes shadow puppets during a film.

Dance looks absurd on film, I think, like little puppets moving around.

I started making puppets and sets when I was 9 years old.

I play the Demon myself -- no puppets involved.

If you want to compare your show to a comedy show, you're more than welcome to ... You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls.

I didnt realize that the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity ...You're doing theatre when you should be doing debate... What you do is not honest... You're on CNN! The show that leads in to me is puppets making prank phone calls! What is wrong with you?

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

If I wanted to have wooden sex with strings attached I'd get married."" In reference to the movie ""Team America"" in which puppets appear to have sex

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole country

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

I didn't need to be rescued." "Sorry, but my sword outranks your…" she glanced at my hand, "sock puppet.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

Religion is for followers... Followers and puppets.

I feel like Obama's an Illuminati puppet.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.

Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.