Jim Henson

“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.”

“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”

“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.”

“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”

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

“I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.”

“Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.”

“When single shines the triple sun,What was sundered and undoneShall be whole, the two made oneBy Gelfling hand, or else by none.”

“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.”

“If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”

“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.”

“Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.”

“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.”