Ventriloquist quotes:

Send

Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it. -- Paul Winchell
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. -- Alan King
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy. -- Alexander Theroux
I'm a pretty good ventriloquist, but it's the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more. -- Jeff Dunham
To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own. -- William Safire
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father. -- Wendy Liebman
All through college, I was searching for characters that would make me unique and set me apart from the typical ventriloquist with the typical dummy that was the little boy, cheeky hard figure like Charlie McCarthy. -- Jeff Dunham
The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y. -- Jeff Dunham
So many actors are lively-minded, creative people who just tread water in this awful way, waiting for the phone to ring and doing their hair for auditions. It feels like a bit of a dreamer's life - as opposed to a sensible ventriloquist's life. -- Nina Conti
I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character. -- Nina Conti
I think there's a lot of, unfortunately, unfunny ventriloquists out there, so they've got a bad rap. It came after Edgar Bergen because everybody had a little cheeky boy dummy like Charlie McCarthy, and everybody decided to become a ventriloquist because Bergen had popularized it. He brought it back from the doldrums of vaudeville. -- Jeff Dunham
No, because I am not a ventriloquist. -- Russell Banks
WRITERS ARE "SPIRITIAL VENTRILOQUIST" WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE PAPER TALK! -- Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants. -- Thom Yorke
Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else. -- Dana Gould
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist. -- Dana Gould
I started as a ventriloquist, a very bad ventriloquist. And people saw my lips moving and it was ridiculous, so finally I decided I'd better change my occupation. -- David Copperfield
I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do. -- Brad Williams
You're alive!" Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across... -- William Goldman
Just like every kid who comes into show business on some level, I used to put shows on in my basement. I even started with doing tricks and having a ventriloquist dummy. -- Don Scardino
Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway. -- Larry Sultan
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. -- Sarah Waters
--

Send