Jim Henson: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”