Puppeteer
noun
A person who operates a puppet.
The puppeteer makes the puppets move as if they were live creatures.
Often appears as...
- professional puppeteer
- talented puppeteer
noun
A person who manipulates or controls something or someone.
He remained unseen, a shadowy puppeteer controlling the events from afar.
Often appears as...
- political puppeteer
- puppeteer behind the scenes
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Disapproving
noun
A person who operates a puppet.
The puppeteer makes the puppets move as if they were live creatures.
Often appears as...
- professional puppeteer
- talented puppeteer
noun
A person who manipulates or controls something or someone.
He remained unseen, a shadowy puppeteer controlling the events from afar.
Often appears as...
- political puppeteer
- puppeteer behind the scenes
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Performance Art
The term often relates to entertainment, such as in theaters, TV, or street performances.
We watched a puppeteer at the street fair.
Pro Tip 2/3Skillful Expression
A good puppeteer uses movements to express emotions or tell a story without words.
The skilled puppeteer brought laughter and tears through the puppet show.
Pro Tip 3/3Behind the Scenes
The puppeteer is usually hidden from the audience, making the puppets look alive.
She realized the puppeteer had been behind the curtain the whole show.
Pro Tip 1/3Performance Art
The term often relates to entertainment, such as in theaters, TV, or street performances.
We watched a puppeteer at the street fair.
Pro Tip 2/3Skillful Expression
A good puppeteer uses movements to express emotions or tell a story without words.
The skilled puppeteer brought laughter and tears through the puppet show.
Pro Tip 3/3Behind the Scenes
The puppeteer is usually hidden from the audience, making the puppets look alive.
She realized the puppeteer had been behind the curtain the whole show.
Pro Tip 1/3Performance Art
The term often relates to entertainment, such as in theaters, TV, or street performances.
We watched a puppeteer at the street fair.
Pro Tip 2/3Skillful Expression
A good puppeteer uses movements to express emotions or tell a story without words.
The skilled puppeteer brought laughter and tears through the puppet show.
Pro Tip 3/3Behind the Scenes
The puppeteer is usually hidden from the audience, making the puppets look alive.
She realized the puppeteer had been behind the curtain the whole show.
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Life lessons from a...
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
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The science of...
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
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Why you don’t like the...
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.
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Ancestral Stones PIPE...
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
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Life lessons from a...
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
Video examples
The science of...
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
Video examples
Why you don’t like the...
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.
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Ancestral Stones PIPE...
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
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Dana Carvey
American Comedian
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.
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Caroll Spinney
American Cartoonist
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.
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Elif Safak
Turkish Author
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.
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Jim Henson
American Entertainer
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.
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Asha Rangappa
American Lawyer
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.
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James Wan
Australian Producer
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.
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Kevin Peter Hall
American Actor
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.
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Orson Scott Card
American Writer
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.
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Brad Bird
American Director
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.
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Stan Freberg
American Actor
I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.
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Dana Carvey
American Comedian
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.
Quote examples
Caroll Spinney
American Cartoonist
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.
Quote examples
Elif Safak
Turkish Author
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.
Quote examples
Jim Henson
American Entertainer
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.
Quote examples
Asha Rangappa
American Lawyer
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.
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James Wan
Australian Producer
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.
Quote examples
Kevin Peter Hall
American Actor
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.
Quote examples
Orson Scott Card
American Writer
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.
Quote examples
Brad Bird
American Director
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.
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Stan Freberg
American Actor
I trained my son to be a puppeteer since he was a little boy.
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