Dummy Quotes

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.

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

I was a dummy in school.

We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own.

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.

Of course, I'm no dummy.

Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.