Quotes by Puppets You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything Aaron Tippin puppetsmenfall We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. Alan Moore stringspuppets The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe. Alan Watts puppetsrealwhole What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call "here and now," and you are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing... The real you is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real deep-down you is the whole universe. Alan Watts puppetsoceanreal You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe... Alan Watts bangspuppetsends We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us. Alan Watts drivenpuppetspast You wouldn't find a Joni Mitchell on 'X Factor;' that's not the place. 'X Factor' is a specific thing for people that want to go through that process - it's a factory, you know, and it's owned and stitched-up by puppet masters. Annie Lennox puppetswantpeople There is no ICC anymore. It is just BCCI. It is not International Cricket Council it is International Crime Council. If you take all the cricket board Presidents am sure they are all puppets. ICC is the toothless tiger. Arjuna Ranatunga puppetsboardspresident When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world. Arthur Darvill puppetstheatreworld My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet. Benjamin Percy puppetsvoicemight If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. Bertrand Russell puppetsrealdoe The puppet on the right shares my beliefs, the puppet on the left is more to my liking. Hey...there's one guy holding up both! Bill Hicks heypuppetsguy If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young. Bob Balaban puppetsseriousattention I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv. Brian Henson puppetsthinking 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 puppetsattitudefun But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects. Brian Henson puppetsdadspecial A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets. Brian Henson puppetsget-betterblessing First of all, you're improvising through a puppet, so you're not always yourself: you're a cow or you're a pig or you're an old woman, you know, whatever puppet you pick, or you're a demon, you know, whatever you pick up, that's what you get to be in the scene. Brian Henson puppetscowspigs 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." Brian Henson festivalspuppetscomedy We took a show to the Aspen Comedy Festival, called "Puppet Up" at that point, and in Aspen we just did three shows, and in Aspen, there was a producer from the Edinborough Fringe Festival, who said, "Please come to Edinborough." Brian Henson festivalspuppetsthree123456»
