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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'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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I'm a sign painter with no boss.
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I'm a perfectionist I guess. Everyone has to love me.
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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 want to communicate. I do every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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It would be really embarrassing to introduce yourself as somebody who makes beauty.
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People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.
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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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No matter how much I'm on and people are loving me, there's always some like, and it's usually a woman too, in the audience rolling her eyes, Oh Wayne, you're embarrassing yourself. There's always someone like that.
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All I do is work, that's all my life is work.
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When I commit to working with an artist, I give them as much respect as I would like and if I'm not going to commit that way, then I don't want to work with you.
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Static puppets, I wanted them to move, they're looking out the windows, but we didn't have time to rig those. I have more ideas than I can execute also every time that I do anything. I put the puppets in because people love 'em. I'm a populist in that sense.
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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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It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?
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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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Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go.
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If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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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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Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.
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