Frank Oz famous quotes

04-27-2025

Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.
-- Frank Oz

#Trying
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.
-- Frank Oz

#Years #Nine #British
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.
-- Frank Oz

#Kids #Gay #Broadway
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.
-- Frank Oz

#Want #Directors #Theater
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
-- Frank Oz

#Drama #Dark #People
I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.
-- Frank Oz

#Crazy #Years #Done
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.
-- Frank Oz

#People #Parent #Looks
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.
-- Frank Oz

#Zero #Character #Voice
I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.
-- Frank Oz

#Drama #Different #Done
First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.
-- Frank Oz

#First Impression #Firsts #Unfair
Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.
-- Frank Oz

#Heart #Character #Locks
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.
-- Frank Oz

#Differences #Touching #Who Cares
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.
-- Frank Oz

#President #Want #United States
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.
-- Frank Oz

#Book #Adventure #Pages
I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.
-- Frank Oz

#Kids #Gay #Vitality
Jim (Henson) should have ****inÂ¿ fired me several times...
-- Frank Oz

#Should
Impossible to see, the future is.
-- Frank Oz

#Decision #Impossible #Decision Making
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
-- Frank Oz

#Defense #Use #Force
When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our ***** 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.
-- Frank Oz

#People #Three #Credit

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