Puppets Quotes - Page 9

• Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

  Jeff Dunham

  Character, Stories, Peanuts

  "A Q&A with ventriloquist Jeff Dunham". Interview with Jill Diver, www.gloucestertimes.com. October 20, 2010.

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• [Bashar] Assad is one of the main reasons why ISIS even exists to begin with. Assad is a puppet of Iran.

  Marco Rubio

  Isis, Iran, Reason Why

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• 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.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Done, Were Meant To Be

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview with Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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• For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Hands, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 24, 2011

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• Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It's not about that. It's about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

  Frank Oz

  Differences, Touching, Who Cares

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 16, 2007.

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• Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

  John Roecker

  Friday, Sex, Keys

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Character, Mean, People

  Interview with Peter Sciretta, www.slashfilm.com. November 3, 2007.

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• If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

  Pietro Badoglio

  Government, Rome, Land

  "A Special Mission" by Dan Kurzman, (p. 9), 2007.

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• I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

  David Wenham

  Writing, Names, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Unique, Careers, Actors

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• The inference is, that God has restated the superiority of the West. God always does like that when a thousand white people surround one dark one. Dark people are always "bad" when they do not admit the Divine Plan like that. A certain Javanese man who sticks up for Indonesian Independence is very lowdown by the papers, and suspected of being a Japanese puppet.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Men, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.166, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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.

  Nina Conti

  Real, Way, Moments

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• It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

  John Lasseter

  Memorable, Character, Hands

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• For me, the stereoscopic imagery was a new game to play with. Surprisingly enough, it's also a return to tradition. I'm back with paper-looking puppets moving about in several layers of theatrical backgrounds.

  Michel Ocelot

  Moving, Games, Play

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Benjamin Percy

  Voice, Might, Pounds

  "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

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• 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.

  Charles Stross

  Dog, House, Conservative

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Needs, Prophet, Pulpit

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• I have to care and I have to be honest and have the courage to be vulnerable. If that happens, then that's the best I can do. To just be a puppet for the audience is not very courageous. Just to do whatever they say they want - because a lot of times people will hear something new that they hadn't heard before and get turned on by a new experience and will want to hear more of that.

  Herbie Hancock

  New Experiences, People, Care

  "Jazz icon Herbie Hancock". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. August 29, 2011.

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• There's a new reality born every minute. Unless one is a believer in predestination (in which case I'll call the prestidigitator), or other puppet-like restraints on our powers, one is free to imagine and effect changes on the world. And if enough people do it, there are big changes. These things happen. Anything can.

  Neil Peart

  Reality, People, World

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• If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Doe, Supremacy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.652, Routledge

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• 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.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Focus, Feelings, Want

  "Immersed in Movies: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson Talk ‘Anomalisa’ and Adult Stop-Motion". Interview with Bill Desowitz, blogs.indiewire.com. November 16, 2015.

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

  Bob Balaban

  Serious, Attention, Young

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 3, 2006.

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• The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.

  Peter Camejo

  Pregnancy, Government, Iraq

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• 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.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Fighting, Men, Want

  Song: The Bigger They Come The Harder They Fall, Album: The Harder They Come, 1972

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• I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

  Whitney Houston

  Media, Ideas, Want

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