Puppets Quotes

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

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • Destiny
  • Puppets

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

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

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

  Garry Kasparov
  • Today
  • Fall
  • Puppets

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

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Everything
  • Lives
  • Spoils

• Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • High
  • Chance
  • Fate

• I've always loved stop motion animation and I particularly wanted to do stop motion with puppets that have fur, for whatever reason that is.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Reason
  • Wanted
  • Animation

• Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.

  

  Wayne White
  • Ideas
  • Performance
  • Puppets

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

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • Emotion
  • Fantastic
  • Analysis

• Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.

  

  Wayne White
  • Move
  • Windows
  • Puppets

• And with puppets, especially in our company, we sort of demand a very high standard of puppetry, so it's a real technical skill.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Company
  • Standard
  • Technical skill

• Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

  

  Winston Grime
  • Believe
  • Independence
  • Illusion

• Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Children
  • Desire

• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Children
  • Play
  • Childhood

• I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Desire
  • Prove
  • Puppets

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

  

  Brian Henson
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Story

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

  

  Nina Conti
  • Human
  • Say
  • Puppets

• And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Character
  • Action
  • Director

• What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!

  

  Kate Langley Bosher
  • Believe
  • Moments
  • Humans

• So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Reader
  • Machines
  • Saving

• 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
  • Talk
  • Puppets

• 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.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Fun
  • Show
  • Puppets

• 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

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Country
  • Hundred
  • Puppets