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What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!
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When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
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Eventually we want to do a puppet musical with turntables in the orchestra pit.
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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.
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Indescribably filthy jokes are perpetrated by a ventriloquist with the aid of a puppet.

(Quoted from the Bulletin of The Juvenile Protective Association, May 1921)
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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.
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I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.
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I have performed many puppet and non-puppet characters in my career. Some I miss, some I do not. But when I miss them, I only miss performing them. The actual sweatiness of the fur and foam and fleece? Not so much.
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What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.
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He puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.
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Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.
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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
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Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
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My soul, I've found, has puppet strings
to make me droop or give me wings.
And music is the puppeteer
that turns my ear to hear.
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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.
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With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there." and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would see the guy underneath. So it is a lot of foreground stuff.
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I'm not anybody's puppet.
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The puppet characters were combinations of people I had known and to some degree aspects of my own personality. Weird was based on someone I knew in Chicago. Dirty Dragon was based on a good friend I had in Indianapolis.
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When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
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One more thing, don't forget the music box. I'll be honest, I never liked that puppet thing... It was always...Thinking...
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I'm a dramatist.
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The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.
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My stage projection's a puppet; I could moon the crowd and the projectors would compensate and make it look like I'd bowed.
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The microwave clock spills over into midnight, and the marionette girl walks up the stairs to sleep in her puppet bed in the puppet house, filled with not-puppet people. They are made of flesh and blood, and she is made of wood and lies.
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I hover over myself
Watching.
Mind and body separated,
Each in control
As though there are two puppeteers
Working the strings of my marionette self.
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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.
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It's weird the way "finger puppet" sounds okay as a noun ... ladies.
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Unlike puppets we have the possibility of stopping in our movements, looking up and perceiving the machinery by which we have been moved. In this act lies the first steps towards freedom.
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Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it.
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Puppets, zeitgeisty dressed, they dance on the edge of fire-breathing volcanoes -
lack of emotion in their faces.
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A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.
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I bought a brown-skinned glove puppet. He came with a little black briefcase and his hair was parted exactly down the middle. The precision of his parting made me uneasy; somehow it was too human at the exact same time as exposing his status as a nonhuman.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.
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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.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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Humans," said the puppeteer, "should not be allowed to run loose. You will surely harm yourselves.
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It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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The lamplight gleamed on the Magus' white grin. People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists
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The marvelous Maker!
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Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.
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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.
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I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.
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I always wanted to be a Muppet.
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The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.
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It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.
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Mimes in the form of God on high mutter and mumble low and hither and tither fly, mere puppets they who come and go.
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comedic playwright.
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I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.
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pocket lizard licker.
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I'm getting Puppetmasters, too. They're one of my favorites. And they're coming out with new Puppetmasters. I try not to get everything, but I want so much.
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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.
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A performer needs and craves a live audience.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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Galaxy! When can a man know he is not a puppet? How can a man know he is not a puppet?
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The stage calls my name.
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The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left ... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
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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."
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It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.
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"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.
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A microphone fiend; I make beats do back flips.
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You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
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No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
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I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.
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I was a great fan of Jim Henson.
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When man acts he is a puppet. When he describes he is a poet.
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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.
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I am a performer. I go on stage and make a fool of myself.
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I'm a total performer.
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We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.
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Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
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A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
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I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
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I am a performer; that's what I like to do.
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A first-class storyteller
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The web presents an opportunity to showcase any character your sick mind desires. Want to create a cross-dressing, deaf/mute, corrupt politician who has a soft spot for saving children? Go for it!
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Everyone is a puppet, but there are no puppet-masters.
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Vagina Whisperer.
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Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.
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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
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There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
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I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups ... singi ng or speaking and using machines ...
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I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.
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I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.
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Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.
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A Voice from I Don't Know Where
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I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.
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I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.
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I've always been a performer. I love doing impressions of people and being the clown.
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They were all puppets, animated by the properties, responsibilities, and relationships they were tied to,
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I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.
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You should have made porn puppets. You could have charged a lot more for the shows.
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Born of necessity, the little fellow literally freed us of immediate worry. He provided the means for expanding our organization to its present dimensions and for extending the medium cartoon animation towards new entertainment levels. He spelled production liberation for us.
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It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)
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A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.
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I've always had a fascination for the stage which has to do with transfiguration. One moment you are John Smith from East Brighton riding in your cart, and the next moment you are in a completely different world.
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A Clock stopped
Not the Mantel's
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still
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That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
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I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.