Top 100 Henson Quotes
#1. "Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.
Brian Henson
#3. Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."
Denis Leary
#4. Jim [Henson] had written letters to his five children to be opened only after his death. Brian read from his. Jim wrote, 'Be good to each other. Love and forgive everybody.' I remembered Jim telling me that he never wasted energy on hating anybody; he had too much thinking to do.
Caroll Spinney
#5. I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does.
Jussie Smollett
#6. I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.
Bresha Webb
#7. We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we've done traditionally. And that's what brought us here and now we're here.
Brian Henson
#8. Jim (Henson) should have ****in fired me several times ...
Frank Oz
#10. This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
Brian Henson
#11. I don't know where the ideas come from. It's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard Muppet Exhibit Seattle EMP Jim Henson
Patricia Kay
#12. I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
Rob McClure
#13. There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Zac Posen
#14. Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.
Peter James West
#15. (Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.
Jim Henson
#16. My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
Teddy Sears
#17. I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppeteering was only there as a hobby. I wanted to be a journalist. When I was 19, and after I had spent about a year in college, Jim Henson asked me to come out and try puppeteering for awhile.
Frank Oz
#18. Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered.
Steve Whitmire
#19. I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.
Brian Henson
#20. Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
Neil Patrick Harris
#22. I have always been a fan of Jim Henson, and I love his Creature Shop creations, the skill of the puppets and the characters he creates.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#23. I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them.
David Beckham
#24. People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
Keith Henson
#25. If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought this character to life, that's really rewarding. That's really cool.
Elden Henson
#26. Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
Keith Henson
#27. Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.
Brian Henson
#28. In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph.
Bill Henson
#29. The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.
Jim Henson
#30. We sent a troupe to Edinborough, and then in Edinborough, there was a producer from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, so we went to Melbourne. So it's one of these shows that kind of organically developed and it started developing momentum way before I even thought there was a show here.
Brian Henson
#32. When I said I would be the judge of your worth, I did not mean that I owned your life, Rowan Jun.
Garyn Kei
Tamara Henson
#33. You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]
Miss Piggy
#34. And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.
Brian Henson
#35. The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.
Brian Henson
#37. Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.
Keith Henson
#38. In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.
Brian Henson
#39. On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky.
Taraji P. Henson
#40. It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
#41. Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
Jim Henson
#43. I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
Matthew Henson
#44. When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson
#45. I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
Taraji P. Henson
#46. Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson
#47. I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.
Jim Henson
#48. The spirits made her sick, and I don't just mean the Scotch.
Lenora Henson
#49. I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color.
Taraji P. Henson
#50. You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.
Bill Henson
#51. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
#52. I love the Avengers movies and Iron Man and Captain America.
Elden Henson
#53. Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.
Jim Henson
#54. I thought, well, if we're inviting an audience, let's do it right. So I put in a proper studio audience at our studios in Los Angeles and it was just a little showcase and it was just for fun.
Brian Henson
#55. The drug or cult has major if not exclusive sources of brain rewards.
Keith Henson
#56. And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut. And they'd keep their hands in the puppets, they'd stay in character, and then they'd start goofing around with each other and be off of script, and it would get quite blue.
Brian Henson
#57. We are deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Jonathan Hardy. The clever wit and joy he brought to his performance of Rygel was a true gift to the world of Farscape. My sincerest condolences go out to Jonathan's family and to his many fans around the world.
Brian Henson
#58. I don't want'a die ... I have other plans! -Fraggle Rock
Jim Henson
#59. We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside ... Inside.
Jim Henson
#60. And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.
Brian Henson
#61. I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.
Jim Henson
#62. Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe, ... Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.
Jim Henson
#63. We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making fun of the puppets for being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show.
Brian Henson
#64. Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.
Keith Henson
#65. Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.
Brian Henson
#66. It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Jim Henson
#67. I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson
#68. As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.
Jim Henson
#69. I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
Taraji P. Henson
#70. Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.
Taraji P. Henson
#71. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
Jim Henson
#72. But the fact that most of the show you can't be prepared for, you have no idea really what's coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it's kind of fun.
Brian Henson
#73. When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
Taraji P. Henson
#74. It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson
#75. It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everything had to be safe for the whole family. But he was targeting adults.
Brian Henson
#76. When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you.
Bill Henson
#77. Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.
Taraji P. Henson
#78. When you go to a great concert something that happens is there is a deep sense of communality and connectedness one to another - as though we are all looking to eachother and saying yeah, we get it, we're all on one page.
Bill Henson
#79. Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us
a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.
Jim Henson
#80. Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.
Taraji P. Henson
#81. I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.
Brian Henson
#82. To every dreamer, you direct the light of all the world!
Tamara Henson
#83. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems
Jim Henson
#84. I loved movies, growing up. They brought me so much joy.
Elden Henson
#85. I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
Taraji P. Henson
#86. It was the dreamscape of the suburbs that interested me.
Bill Henson
#87. If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
Jim Henson
#88. It's really great to do one piece, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," my dad developed in 1956, when he was 20 years old, and it's great to do that piece again now and see that it still really works as well as it ever did.
Brian Henson
#89. I've been acting a long time. I've been a member of SAG since 1982.
Elden Henson
#90. My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
Brian Henson
#91. Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.
Jim Henson
#92. The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.
Brian Henson
#93. Distill your game down to that one thing - that singular piece of joy. Create that one joyful experience for your player, and nail it. That's your game. Everything else is just feature creep.
Ryan Henson Creighton
#94. Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.
Opportunity just knocked,
Let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.
Jim Henson
#95. Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.
Keith Henson
#96. Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
Jim Henson
#97. I hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting.
Taraji P. Henson
#98. Adolescence is interesting. I mean, all of life is interesting and all of life is transitionary. But I think there is an exponential growth physically, intellectually, emotionally and there is so much potential.
Bill Henson
#99. Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier."
Brian Henson
#100. I suspect that a substantial fraction of human problems in the world today, not just cults, result from the mismatch between the current environment and the environment in which we evolved.
Keith Henson
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