Best Ventriloquism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People don't care about perfection when they want to be entertained.”

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“You want to play innocent? That the kind of person who spends their lives projecting their voice into a lamb or lizard isn't into some kinky shit when the lights go out?”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“Ventriloquism is not a physically demanding hobby. High school athletes tended to spend their weekends fingering something other than a dummy's eyes”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“I want to say now that the voice takes up space, in two senses. It inhabits and occupies space; and it also actively procures space for itself. The voice takes place in space, because the voice is space.”

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Book:Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

Source: Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism

“A talking mongoose, one must admit, is a more captivating figure than the typical Charlie McCarthy knockoff.”

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Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“It was a rare dummy that invested itself too much in caring for humans, deaf to their input and condescending to them as a rule.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“Ventriloquism was once sacred. Priests spoke from their stomachs, believing they were communing with the unliving, who set up shop there.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“Some of them get it in their heads that they are closer to God... It could get you burned at the stake centuries ago. Throwing your voice is close enough to consorting with demons, though your voice stays where it is. All that’s different is your lips don’t move.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“You talk this game about what the ancient Greeks did, ghosts in the gullet, and all that. Hucksterism, sure. I can appreciate a good scam. But to the people who came to see it—to see us—it was holy.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“A ventriloquist wants to be someone else. Ventriloquists wish to speak but want to blame someone else for the consequences of their words.”

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Book:The Road to Vent Haven

Source: The Road to Vent Haven

“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.”

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Author:David Wenham

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Nina Conti

“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.'”

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Author:Jim Cummings

“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!”

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Author:Dana Gould

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“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.”

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Author:Wendy Liebman

“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.”

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Book:All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

Source: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

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

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Author:Alexander Theroux

“I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.”

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Author:Illeana Douglas

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

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Author:Jeanine Basinger

“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.”

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Book:All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

Source: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

“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.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham