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Quotes About Puppetry

Baines jerked his hands as if tugging reins; the web of light around Will tightened. Will staggered woodenly like jagged marionette.
~ Elizabeth Bear
My granddad was very funny and I really loved making people laugh. I used to do puppet shows and I really liked seeing people's reactions.
~ Richard Herring
A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.
~ Sam Harris
They felt kind of like dolls, with Ali arranging their every move.
~ Sara Shepard
We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them.
~ John Webster
The characters act for reasons that they can't control and, as readers, we have to believe in their motivations, their sense of choice and in the reality of their suffering, even though, deep down, we know it's all just puppetry on the part of the writer.
~ Johnny Rich
He'd been many things to me, Nathaniel had, most of them indescribable. But he never looked so much of a puppet as he did now. And already it had all gone wrong.
~ Jonathan Stroud
When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.
~ Arthur Darvill
But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
~ Jim Henson
The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
~ James Bobin
Los hilos invisibles que manejan el destino de las personas a veces quedan en evidencia, y lo que parece obra del Gran Demiurgo se convierte en la función de un mal titiritero. No existen los encuentros casuales. Las
~ Federico Andahazi
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.
~ Stasia Ward Kehoe
I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look real - like, make its interactions look real. And then I have to sing at the same time, and I have to have my facial expressions reacting to the puppet... So it's a lot going on, and I have to focus on every single thing at the same time.
~ Darci Lynne Farmer
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.
~ James Bobin
Jim Henson was an absolute genius.
~ Marcus Brigstocke
I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.
~ Spike Jonze
I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.
~ Travis Knight
O, lijepe moje slatke lutke! Svi smo mi igra?ke u bazaru civilizacije! Svira?i, dame, no?ni desperateri, paralitici, svi se mi mi?emo u izlogu civilizacije po pravilu. Navinuli su nas, igraju se nama, a onda nas bacaju u sme?e!
~ Miroslav Krleža
olhinhos de madeira, por que me fitam?
~ Carlo Collodi
Las personas eran como los títeres o los juguetes de cuerda, tenían todas un resorte oculto que permitía mover sus hilos y hacerlas correr en la dirección que uno deseaba.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Tinsley felt like a puppeteer playing with her marionettes, holding all the strings.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
Por la Galaxia! ¿Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere? ¿Cómo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?
~ Isaac Asimov
Cuándo puede saber un hombre que no es un títere?
~ Isaac Asimov
The character of the monkey just grew from something out of his face and my granddad's personality. They fused, and that's what I ended up with! The monkey belonged to a friend of mine, and I saw that it had such a little beguiling face and it grew from there.
~ Nina Conti