Ventriloquism Quotes

• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

  Illeana Douglas

  Magic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 84, 1799.

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• Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

  Penn Jillette

  Moving, Voice, People

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• But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

  Jeff Dunham

  Simple, Voice, Teeth

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Funny, Mom, Mother

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• Here's something you never hear: Now that I've worked through all my emotional issues, I'm free to dedicate my life to ventriloquism!

  Dana Gould

  Emotional, Issues

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• Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Magic, Cinema, Radio

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• I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year where they psychoanalyse you, four times a week, before you get to do it yourself. I just thought I'd taken the ventriloquism as far as I could. My act is so deconstructive, and I'd made all the monkey jokes anyone wanted to hear.

  Nina Conti

  Taken, Years, Body

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• 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

  Sound, Teeth, Letters

  Jeff Dunham (2010). “All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me”, p.13, Penguin

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• 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

  Writing, Character, Laughing

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• It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

  Alexander Theroux

  Names, Pet, Would Be

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• I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Book, Kids, Skills

  "Jeff Dunham breathes life into his 'friends' - and a lost art". Interview with Bill DeYoung, savannahnow.com. March 3, 2009.

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• I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

  Jim Cummings

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

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• I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you've got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows... even ventriloquism. My doll's name was 'Dan,' and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan's voice.

  David Wenham

  Writing, Names, Voice

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.

  Chase Twichell

  Heart, Venice, Cities

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