Best Puppets Quotes

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

We’re like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

We need more prophets in our pulpits and less puppets

You’ve got to stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything
You’ve got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

I make tiny wooden people with bits of hair. Puppets and things like that.

I think Israel should be treated as an independent nation and not a puppet of our state.

Being the puppet master, it’s like running Nintendo of America.

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

The pop-star thing bores me because it’s somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don’t say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there – you’re not even a human being. You’re a puppet.

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.

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.

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

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.

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

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions – I say a thing; he says the other.

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

I don’t owe Don King anything. I got things with my own sweat and blood. I don’t know if I’ll be associated with Don but I won’t be a slave or puppet for him.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there’s not a puppet master.

And there’s a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it’s not CG, there’s something funny about it.

You know who likes to get fisted? Sock 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

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Puppets allow a person to express things through this surrogate that wouldn’t normally get expressed. You know there’s famous techniques of puppet therapists. Put this hand puppet on and tell me what the problem is.

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.

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

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.

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.

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.