Best Jim Henson Quotes
- Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best. Accept
- I think my own strengths are in television production. Inspirational
- I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Acting
- If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US. Color
- 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… Character
- 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… Astronomical
- Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. Believe
- My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here. Better
- When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave… Ambition
- The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. All
- 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… All
- 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… Art
- I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right. Black
- It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous. Been
- Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them. Inspirational
- Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US. Collection
- Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working. Few
- 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… Articles
- At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point… All
- 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
- NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember… All
- 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… Design
- 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… Backstage
- 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… Abstract
- 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… Attitude