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I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Wayne White

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Wayne White
Age: 104
Born: 1920
Born: November 15
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
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The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.
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I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.
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Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why I like to make puppets in a gallery or museum. They're not often in those contexts.
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I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!
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Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
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First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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I can't help it. I always focus in on the negative.
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All I'm really concerned with is doing my thing.
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I hate people who act too cool for school. Just own up to it, dude.
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Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.
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When we see something beautiful it calls up raw, naked emotion and that's an embarrassing situation to be in.
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I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.
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I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.
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I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.
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Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.
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