Dana Carvey

I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.

American Comedian

Caroll Spinney

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

American Cartoonist

Elif Safak

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

Turkish Author

Jim Henson

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

American Entertainer

Asha Rangappa

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under their influence into acting in their interests without saying a word.

American Lawyer

James Wan

I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do. There's something about creating life out of things that have no life.

Australian Producer

Kevin Peter Hall

I'm not just somebody shuffling around in a monster suit. I'm a kind of puppeteer from the inside who is attempting through arm and body movements to give the creatures I play a sense of personality.

American Actor

Orson Scott Card

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

American Writer

Brad Bird

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

American Director

Stan Freberg

I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.

The term often relates to entertainment, such as in theaters, TV, or street performances.

Performance Art

A good puppeteer uses movements to express emotions or tell a story without words.

Skillful Expression

The puppeteer is usually hidden from the audience, making the puppets look alive.

Behind the Scenes

This usage implies that the person's control or influence is not obvious to others.

Hidden Influence

Refers to a person who has a significant amount of power over people or situations.

Power Dynamics

Though often seen in a negative light, it can refer to benign guidance or influence.

Not Always Negative

 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...

 Prefrontal cortex neurons are connected to the posterior cortex by long, spindly cell extensions called neural fibers. The mental synthesis theory proposes that like a puppeteer pulling the strings, the prefrontal cortex neurons send electrical signals down these neural fibers

The science of...

 and then you have your inner voice. And I like to see this one as the puppeteer that holds the strings of the whole system. Your inner voice is the one you hear when you read a text silently, when you rehearse for an important conversation.

Why you don’t like the...

 gave power to some over the many we have shadowy figures who were almost the puppeteers of their society saying we can do the most extraordinary feats of

Puppeteer