Puppeteers Quotes

• 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.

  

  Joe Grant
  • Inspiration
  • Expressions
  • Puppeteers

• 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.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Script
  • Puppeteers
  • Comedy instructor

• I'm probably the worst person in the world to give advice to puppeteers. My whole attitude towards puppets from the beginning was not one of love, but it was like anti-puppetry.

  

  Wayne White
  • Person
  • Advice
  • Puppeteers

• They are sweating as much as anyone onstage. Their focus has to be that of somebody working on the balance beam. We're all three in sync. We have to feel what the other is doing. One lifts me up, the other, side to side. They're like puppeteers almost.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Focus
  • Onstage
  • Sync

• In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren't pretty or delightful, but they were magical, [...] They called her a dancer and a puppeteer and an artist. They might have called her a witch, and not the good kind either.

  

  Katherine Catmull
  • Artist
  • Dance
  • Human

• Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Dad
  • Show
  • Kid