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Famous Jim Henson Quotes

“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

“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”

Jim Henson

Source: Favorite Songs from Jim Henson's Muppets

“No time is wasted time”

Jim Henson

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“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 the world a little better for having been there.”

Jim Henson

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

Jim Henson

“Honestly, I've been making up everything as I go. When you're riding the ice pony, you see a lot of talking frogs.”

Jim Henson

[The New York Times, October 24, 2015, Jim Henson, Puppeteer, Dies; The Muppets' Creator Was 53, Eleanor, Blau, May 17, 1990, http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/17/obituaries/jim-henson-puppeteer-dies-the-muppets-creator-was-53.html?pagewanted=all]

Jim Henson Quotes about people

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.”

Jim Henson

“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

Jim Henson

“In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act…. I used to say to people that it was a combination of 'marionettes' and 'puppets.'… But then I stopped telling this lie, and I'm back to the truth: It just came out of midair.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

“Jim Henson was a one-of-a-kind visionary whose works have entertained and sparked the imagination of millions of people across the globe for generations.”

Jim Henson

Tanya Lopez, senior vice president of original movies for A+E Networks — cited in: October 17, 2015, United Press International, 'Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow' to air on Lifetime this November, July 9, 2015, Karen Butler, August 25, 2015, https://web.archive.org/web/20150825182444/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2015/07/09/Jim-Hensons-Turkey-Hollow-to-air-on-Lifetime-this-November/2971436466697/ http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2015/07/09/Jim-Hensons-Turkey-Hollow-to-air-on-Lifetime-this-November/2971436466697/, <br class="br">About

“There are people who think that we should never reveal anything, never show puppeteers and all of that. It tends to be something that parents worry about more than kids, because kids work just at face value.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1987)

“People shouldn't come expecting to see the Muppets because they are not here. This is something else.”

Jim Henson

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

Jim Henson Quotes about life

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

Jim Henson

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

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

Jim Henson

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

Jim Henson

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.”

Jim Henson

“The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.”

Jim Henson

“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

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

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“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

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

Jim Henson

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

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

Jim Henson

Jim Henson Quotes

“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

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“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

It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider https://books.google.com/books?id=IiKY1H0A_QEC&pg=PT102 (Hyperion, 2005). <br class="br">Cf. Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider https://books.google.com/books?id=EEiqMIgAl3UC&pg=PA49 (White Plains, N. Y.: Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2007), p. 49.

“Simple is good.”

Jim Henson

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“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

“It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.”

Jim Henson

“I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.”

Jim Henson

“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,…. Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”

Jim Henson

“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.”

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“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”

Jim Henson

“If you can't beat them. Join them”

Jim Henson

Source: Jim Henson's Storyteller

“We see with our eyes. We know with our hearts. Outside… Inside.”

Jim Henson

“I hope that something better comes along.”

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.”

Jim Henson

Source: It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“Watch out for the icy patch”

Jim Henson

“A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.”

Jim Henson

Henson on the motivation behind Fraggle Rock
Interview with Associated Press (1987)

“I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Copley News Service (1976)

“No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

“Even as a kid, I felt isolated. Isolation makes you sensitive. As a kid, I felt I was the only person who was like that. But there's a good side to isolation. It makes you sensitive, and sensitivity is part of the creative process.”

Jim Henson

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

“Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Copley News Service (1976)

“If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U. S.”

Jim Henson

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Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

“Puppetry's a lot harder than people realize, and it's particularly difficult doing a movie. You have this scene with all these puppets, and when something goes wrong, you've got to set the whole thing up to do it again. With people, you ask an actor to walk across the room a second or third time, and he does it. That's it.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

“I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.”

Jim Henson

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

“I really began to appreciate puppetry [while doing Sam and Friends].”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“There are so many forms of puppets. The ones on 'Sesame Street' are probably the most simple that we do.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too.”

Jim Henson

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Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

“Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

“I wanted to do a film where the creatures didn't look like us.”

Jim Henson

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

“Personally, I prefer working in the background.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Copley News Service (1976)

“With puppets, I don't think you should try to duplicate what humans do. It can cause problems.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“I always felt that I was not a part of things in general. I've always been outside of things.”

Jim Henson

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

“We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?”

Jim Henson

Henson on the motivation behind Fraggle Rock
Interview with Associated Press (1987)

“There must be a lot of shy actor in puppeteering. His work is the puppeteer's statement. It's his outlet. If I had to face the audience myself, as Jim Henson, I'm sure I'd be just a bit shy. But when it's your puppets that face the audience, it's different. That I can do very easily.”

Jim Henson

In response to Don Freeman's question: "Is the puppeteer a shy actor?"
Interview with Copley News Service (1976)

“What do we want our children to get from Henson’s work? The same thing we learned from it. The philosophy of a gentle dreamer. The message that was encapsulated in “The Rainbow Connection” – the one about the “The lovers, the dreamers, and me.” It’s the idea that life is about making a difference, a positive change. And we’ve all heard it, even the Howard Roarks among us, calling our names.”

Jim Henson

Elizabeth Hyde Stevens, "Millennials just don’t get it! How the Muppets created Generation X" http://www.salon.com/2014/04/06/millennials_just_dont_get_it_how_the_muppets_created_generation_x/, Salon (April 6, 2014) <br class="br">About

“With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

“What Jim wanted to do, and it was totally his vision, was to get back to the darkness of the original Grimm’s fairy tales. He thought it was fine to scare children. He didn’t think it was healthy for children to always feel safe.”

Jim Henson

Frank Oz, as quoted in Q&A: Frank Oz on Henson, “Dark Crystal” and the Kwik Way http://blog.sfgate.com/parenting/2007/06/28/qa-frank-oz-on-henson-dark-crystal-and-the-kwik-way/, SFGate, (June 28, 2007). <br class="br">About

“The whole idea with the show from the start was to go international.”

Jim Henson

Interview with Associated Press (1984)

“It's an adventure story. But it's definitely not in our world.”

Jim Henson

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

“It's a rather dark vision, actually.”

Jim Henson

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

“I think it's good to be your own person. But individuality is a mixed blessing. People who are 'different' are isolated.”

Jim Henson

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)