Own Quote by John Pinette

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

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

— James Bobin

Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy…

— Kalan Sherrard

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

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how…

— Darci Lynne Farmer

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…

— Wayne White

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

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

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

— Charles de Lint

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.

— Daniel Tosh

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.

— Jim Henson

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

— Nina Conti