Quotes About Sesame Street

#1. After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

Feist

#2. I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when 'Sesame Street' approached me to guest star, I thought: 'I'm going to be on this!' It's pretty incredible stuff.

James Blunt

#3. Sesame Street ... I think they were all high. With Big Bird, they had to be high.

Pauly Shore

#4. Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street ... those were like real accomplishments to me.

Chaka Khan

#5. 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

#6. I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda Hawkins Costigan. She was a gracious teacher, and a wonderful collaborator.

Linda Goldstein Knowlton

#7. It was a nephilim."
"A nephi-what?" asked Hugh, startled.
"Isn't that a character on Sesame Street?" Peter spoke up for the first time.

Richelle Mead

#8. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.

Conan O'Brien

#9. I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

Darren Aronofsky

#10. I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

Saoirse Ronan

#11. What I remember most about working on 'Sesame Street' is having fun in the green room with the other kids while waiting for my time to go on camera to work with the puppets.

Tyler James Williams

#12. When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Feist

#13. 'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Sarah Churchwell

#14. I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.

Neil Patrick Harris

#15. You're an investigator - can't nobody find stuff out like a woman. Y'all put the police to shame, make the little investigative tricks they show on CSI and Law & Order: SVU look like counting lessons on Sesame Street.

Steve Harvey

#16. Though I wondered what she ever made of my professed love for and intentions to marry Big Bird, the hottie of Sesame Street.

Wendy Delsol

#17. There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

Sarah Churchwell

#18. With four kids, it's hard to watch anything other than 'Sesame Street.'

Neal McDonough

#19. In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

Jacki Weaver

#20. The person I enjoyed interviewing the most was Elmo from Sesame Street because he is so unpredictable and he is always eating my hair and my face.

Katie Couric

#21. I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#22. Call me a sucker for a man who had a great ass who knows how to bake a macaroni casserole and can tolerate six hours of Sesame Street a day.

Seanan McGuire

#23. If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.

Jacob Lusk

#24. I learned my ABCs, 1-2-3 from 'Sesame Street.'

Tyra Banks

#25. As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.

Jay Leno

#26. This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Phil Donahue

#27. The coolest thing I've gotten to do in the past few years is guest star on Sesame Street.

Norah Jones

#28. I thought it was quintessentially American - very hip, very late-'60s. I was absolutely stunned when a German production company asked me if I could do a 'Sesame Street' in Germany. It was absolutely the happiest surprise.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#29. The benefits kids get from watching "Sesame Street" can be as powerful as the ones children get from preschool.

Julie Roginsky

#30. Precious souls as young as three or four, raised on the misplaced multicultural priorities of Sesame Street," he claims, "are doomed before they even enter the godless morass of the public school system.

Chuck Palahniuk

#31. Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

Russell Brand

#32. Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.

Malcolm Gladwell

#33. I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.

Neil Patrick Harris

#34. My first day of high school, I wore brown boys' corduroys that my mom had sewn Sesame Street elastic into - they were my coolest pants - and a lime green Patagonia fleece that my mom found at Goodwill. I loved fleece.

Cameron Russell

#35. Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.

Alessia Cara

#36. He stood before the door, feeling uncharacteristically nervous. Hi. Uh ... how are ya?
No, no.
Hello, Jack. I'm back.
Shit, that fuckin' rhymes. Sounds like fuckin' Sesame Street.
Hi there. Off with yer clothes.
Nothin' like gettin' right ta the point, huh?

Jane Seville

#37. Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street

Richard Bachman

#38. I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

George A. Romero

#39. I wish I could tell you that the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street were thanks to my genius, but it really was a lucky break.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#40. Personal matters have diverted attention away from the important work Sesame Street is doing, and I cannot allow it to go on any longer. I am deeply sorry to be leaving and am looking forward to resolving these personal matters privately.

Kevin Clash

#41. It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.'

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#42. Why can't we ever fight cute, helpless monsters? Like the ones on Sesame Street?

Larry Correia

#43. I studied piano and viola and voice in high school and music composition in college. For many years before I became an author I was a singer songwriter, writing for Disney and Sesame Street. I believe in perfect rhymes - no cheating!

Sarah Weeks

#44. He shook his head. Just - beware of Mr. Chu. He makes Itex look like Sesame Street.

James Patterson

#45. Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird.
And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh ...

Cam'ron

#46. We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

Rachael Leigh Cook

#47. In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead.

Toni Morrison

#48. I never thought I'd be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I'm still thrilled. I'm on a high.

Michelle Obama

#49. 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

Rachel Sklar

#50. I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

Alan Ball

#51. Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?

Dan Barker

#52. I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

Ruth Buzzi

#53. I understood that without English I would never get far, so my dream was to become a receptionist, and so I started to learn English from watching 'Sesame Street.'

Anchee Min

#54. Most people don't hold a job for 45 years. They pass on or want to retire. I don't want to retire. My real goal is to do 50 years on 'Sesame Street,' and I only got 4-and-a-half years to go.

Caroll Spinney

#55. 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

Nancy Gibbs

#56. 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

#57. Stoplights and love can be cruel

Sesame Street

#58. In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'

Joan Ganz Cooney