Could Quote by Nina Conti Download Open image “I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.” — Nina Conti ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Could Humans My own Never Own Puppets Say Stage Theatre Things
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love. — James Bobin Copy Share Image
One time, it was really funny, I was going on stage... and they were like, 'Oh, we didn't mic the puppet! Mic the puppet!'… — Darci Lynne Farmer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
You know, working with puppets - there is just something about it. Because the puppet takes on its own personality. — John Pinette Copy Share Image
Once I'm on stage, there's just no time for a sip of water - I've always got my hands in puppets! My voice is… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
“What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
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… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
My puppets are far more liberated than I am. Ventriloquism is a useful way of expressing myself. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I will remember the night I won the New Comedy Awards, as I was young and unformed, so that sticks in the mind. I've… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I was really awful at auditions. There's something about sitting down and saying into the camera: 'I'm Nina and this is the name of… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I don't want to tie myself into one area or the other. I think its important not to rely heavily on either TV or… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
The most satisfaction I get is from doing a good gig, which really makes you feel in control. If you've worked a room really… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. — David H. Murdock Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I never want to look back on any moment and say I could have done more. So I go all in. — Scott Haze Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era. — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
