70 Quotes by Frank Oz

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    I do, yes, I do. Sick have I become. Old and weak. When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not. Hmm?

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    I don’t look back, I just go forward. I’m just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something.

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    First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don’t know the person.

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    I’d like to read a book sometime. I’ve never read a book before. That’d be an adventure. I understand they have pages and everything. Yeah, I’ve got to do that sometime.

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    I love Britain, I lived there for nine years doing shows and things, but I don’t know what a British sensibility is. I’d like to have someone tell me what an American sensibility is.

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    Sure there’s a difference with puppet-craft – who cares? I don’t care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares about the puppet and craft? It’s not about that. It’s about compelling an audience, and touching an audience in some way.

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    When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it’s CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit – I do nothing.

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    I’m always amused that people zero in on one thing, and it’s the wrong thing to zero in on, but nevertheless, the reason they do that is because the voice is what they know – the voice represents everything about the character, that’s why.

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    I just want to do good work. That’s all I want to do. I don’t have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That’s all.

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