Jim Henson: Quotes about people

Jim Henson was American puppeteer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“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
Hope , People , World , Hope

“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
Children , People , Sense

“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 , Thinking , Parent

“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)

People

“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)

People , Time

“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/,
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People , Imagination

“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)

People , Truth , Lie

“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)

People , Thinking , Personality

“When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.”

Jim Henson

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

People

“Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.' In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.”

Jim Henson

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

People , Way , Madness

“The people who worked for Jim felt like family and he treated them like family.”

Jim Henson

About, "Jim Henson's Muppets legacy lives on 25 years after his death" by Bill Prady

Family , People

“Many creative people have a certain degree of dissatisfaction with the status quo, the established way. If you look at things differently, you are thought of as 'different.”

Jim Henson

In turn, 'different' people are thought to be 'mad.'
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

People , Way