Convince Quote by Garry Shandling

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

— Jim Henson

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…

— Wayne White

I wanted to deconstruct the puppet show. I wanted to turn it inside out and do stuff that you're not supposed to do. I…

— Wayne White

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

— James Bobin

I used to do puppet shows as a kid - me and my brother would do them - and then any poor soul who…

— Michael Giacchino

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

— Bob Balaban

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…

— Wayne White

Puppets can get away with saying things that human beings can't. Because they are cartoonish just to look at, they're not real, you can…

— Paul F. Tompkins

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…

— Nina Conti

You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality.

— John Pinette

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not…

— Jodie Foster

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

— Nina Conti