Quotes by Caroll Spinney - Page 1

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.
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Bird
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I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.
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Bird
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I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'
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Bird
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I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.
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Seconds
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Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
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Bird
Detailed
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I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'
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Going Home
Smallest
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I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being toilet-trained like it was last week - and it wasn't last week.
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Early Childhood
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I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'
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Bird
Life My Life Feel
Genuinely
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I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.
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Bird
Good Way
Opposite
Good Me Way
Awful Lot
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You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures.
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Muppet
Puppets
Best Look People
Appealing
Designed
Exaggerate
Real People
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Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.
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Sesame Street
Sesame
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I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an awfully good job that there's not too many of them. So I just want to keep doing it till I can't do it anymore.
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Bird
Good Job
No Reason
Good Keep Doing
Till
Quit
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The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
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Bird
Okay
Anyway
Individuals
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I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn't know that my face was streamed with tears.
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Bird
Chatting
Divorce
Tears
Unhappy
Pleased
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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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Cents
Scrap
Bought
Puppet
Collected
Monkey
Pretty Good
Wood
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Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.
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Behave
Bird
Bizarre
Inches
Sympathetic
Opposite
Exact
Exact Opposite
Identify
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Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.
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Dollars
Imagine
Lottery
Stopping
Billion
Billion Dollars
Deliberately
Won
Expressing
Frankly
Gotten
Thoroughly
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When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.
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Dare
Sesame Street
Dressing
Dressing Room
Jim
Permanently
Rent
Sesame
Stayed
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I was asked to be on 'The Colbert Report' last year as Big Bird and Oscar. But when we got there, we discovered they wanted both characters on at the same time. Stephen Colbert didn't know one man plays them both. We called Joey Mazzarino, our head writer, who's a very good puppeteer as well. He agreed to zip over and do Oscar.
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Bird
Joey
Last Year
Puppeteer
Time Good Man
Agreed
Report
Discovered
Oscar
Plays
Same Time
Zip
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When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.
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Alphabet
Bird
Goofy
Instance
Think Big
Useful
Bid
Jim
Oscar
Script
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