Top 100 Quotes About Jim Henson
#2. "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. 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
#5. Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
Neil Patrick Harris
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. This is certainly the raunchiest, if you use that word, raunchy. The roots of Jim Henson, though, was adult comedy.
Brian Henson
#11. Jim (Henson) should have ****in fired me several times ...
Frank Oz
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Personally, I think Jim Henson said it best when he said "Anybody got an aspirin? I think I've got a cold."
Denis Leary
#15. 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
#16. I know I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.
Jim Henson
#17. Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
Jim Henson
#18. I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.
Jim Henson
#19. Walter noticed the blue Cookie Monster head resting on the floor, From some angles, the smiling open mouth looked like an expression of abashed joy, from others it resembled horror.
Rion Amilcar Scott
#20. Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.
Jim Henson
#21. At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson
#22. I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson
#23. Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
#24. The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson
#25. My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
#26. (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
#27. Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
Jim Henson
#28. You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.
Jim Henson
#29. No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
#30. We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson
#31. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.
Jim Henson
#32. Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.
Jim Henson
#33. Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed
in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what
you enjoy doing.
Jim Henson
#34. The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.
Jim Henson
#35. I believe that my father had some kind of direct experience of the spiritual nature of reality, maybe a vision, that he tried to convey perhaps unconsciously in his work- that there is a different, more loving and transcendent reality beyond this world of imagined conflicts.
Lisa Henson
#36. I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson
#37. If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson
#38. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
#39. Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.
Jim Henson
#40. A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.
Jim Henson
#42. Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Jim Henson
#43. Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
Jim Henson
#44. I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good.
Jim Henson
#45. If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
Jim Henson
#46. Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson
#47. Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.
Jim Henson
#48. Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
Jim Henson
#49. I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.
Jim Henson
#50. The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
Jim Henson
#51. It's a wonderful life and I love it.
Jim Henson
#52. When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.
Jim Henson Company
#53. But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson
#54. [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
#55. At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson
#56. Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
Jim Henson
#57. I don't want'a die ... I have other plans!
Jim Henson
#58. We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside ... Inside.
Jim Henson
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim 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. Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe, ... Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.
Jim Henson
#68. 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
#69. Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.
Jim Henson
#70. I don't want'a die ... I have other plans! -Fraggle Rock
Jim Henson
#71. 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
#72. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
#73. 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
#74. Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson
#75. 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
#76. Do the jobs you like least first. It makes each successive job easier.
Jim Henson
#77. It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
#78. You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]
Miss Piggy
#79. 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
#80. There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled.
Jim Henson
#81. All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
Jim Henson
#82. Take what you got and fly with it.
Jim Henson
#83. I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.
Jim Henson
#84. I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson
#85. Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson
#86. I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
Jim Henson
#87. If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson
#88. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.
Jim Henson
#89. If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.
Jim Henson
#90. Cara: *Flies*
Gen: What? I don't have wings!
Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.
Jim Henson
#91. Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.
Jim Henson
#93. I think if you study
if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
Jim Henson
#94. There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
Jim Henson
#95. I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.
The Cookie Monster.
Whatever, Rashid
Rion Amilcar Scott
#97. When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson
#98. I hope that something better comes along.
Jim Henson
#99. Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
Jim Henson
#100. 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
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