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“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.”

“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.”

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

“If you can't beat them. Join them”

Source: Jim Henson's Storyteller

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

“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”

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

“I hope that something better comes along.”

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

“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.”

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

“Watch out for the icy patch”

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

“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.”

Interview with Associated Press (1987)

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

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.”

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.”

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.”

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

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

Interview about The Dark Crystal (1982)

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

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.”

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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.”

Interview with Associated Press (1984)