What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march or crawl through life on the edge of a precipice from which at any moment we may be knocked over. And we're told we should believe the experience is a privilege!
From my point of view, compatibilism is a little like saying: a puppet is free so long as it loves its strings.
You hold your head up. You submitting to me doesn't mean you're anything less. . . the very last thing I want is for you to be some mindless puppet.
I'm not some sort of puppet. Like, there isn't a team of people telling me what to do.
With humans you would say, "Don't stand over there. " and that would probably work. With puppets, you can't stand over there because you would see the guy underneath. So it is a lot of foreground stuff.
I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.
You [Hillary Clinton] are the puppet!
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.
That's the thing with animated films - I often feel that puppets get the better parts compared to us normal actresses.
I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.
The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.
I think it's a lot richer than what we call fleshy improv, I think it's very funny, puppet improv and fleshy improv.
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.
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.
They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.
If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.
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.