James Wan

Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and 'Poltergeist' was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.

Australian Producer

Darci Lynne Farmer

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.

American Entertainer

Donny Osmond

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

American Musician

Jodie Foster

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 something that adults take on.

American Actress

John Pinette

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

Leo Buscaglia

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

American Author

Arthur Darvill

When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

English Actor

Jamie Hyneman

Now that I'm not a puppet for some director, the Hyneman is free to explore the world at large.

Dave Matthews

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

South African Musician

Fiona Dourif

Chucky is absolutely still a puppet. He will remain to be.

Originates from theatrical performances where figures are animated by a person.

Theatrical Roots

Can be moved by hand or strings, known as hand puppet or marionette.

Hand or Strings

Often used in stories and plays for children's entertainment.

Children's Entertainment

Used metaphorically to imply someone is being controlled or manipulated.

Control Implication

Carries a negative connotation of powerlessness or lack of agency.

Negative Connotation

Commonly used in political contexts to describe governments or leaders.

Political Context

 And they're aimed at protecting the relationships. These aren't just people being jerks. These are people that are saying, look, I don't want to talk to you now, or I didn't want to talk to you then, but I still care about you. Our relationship is still important. Now, the Sock Puppet, on the other hand, is a totally different animal. The sock puppet isn't about ambiguity, per se. It's about identity.

Jeff Hancock: 3 types of...

 or who I'm with and they're aimed at protecting the relationships these aren't just people being jerks these are people that are saying look I don't want to talk to you now or I didn't want to talk to you then but I still care about you our relationship is still important now the sock puppet on the other hand is a totally different animal the sock

The future of lying -...

 love puppets right so I don't know what to say but this wasn't even the life changing things for me I got to stick around and watch the puppeteers work and it was a day where we shoot these sketches these comedy inserts they called inserts and it was like four of them and I watched it first of all the

Life lessons from a...

 data and my mum. Now, since she hates being on camera, this puppet is going to be as good as it gets. But before she weighs in, I wanted to look at the studies on how friendships fall apart in the hopes that I might be able to avoid some of those pitfalls. According to one study,

What makes a friendship...

 But you know what I tell them? Obits aren't about death, they're about life, they're interesting, they're relatable. Often about something you never knew. Recently, for example, we had the obit for the inventor of the sock puppet. Everyone knows what a sock puppet is,

How we're honoring...

 Either they're outvoted by puppets of agribusiness, or they are puppets of agribusiness. So, when the USDA finally acknowledged that it was plants, rather than animals, that made people healthy, they encouraged us, via their overly simplistic food pyramid,

What's wrong with what...

 What if you could get the people whose support is the very foundation of these democracies to start questioning the system? Make the idea occur in their own minds that democracy and its institutions are failing them, their elite are corrupt puppet masters

How (and why) Russia...

 shows movies and images and talks about animals has puppet shows here's a whole villages out in the market during the day this is a market and they're showing the people about poaching and talking to them about wildlife talking to them to

Steve Winter: On the...

 the ice game accompanying the film trips was an assortment of animatronics this is a baby Tyrannosaurus puppet with remote-control nostrils ever so slightly

The Making of Walking...

 and it kind of breathes. Haa haa haaa. Breath is really important for us. It's the kind of original movement for any puppet for us onstage.