“When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.”
Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)
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Jim Henson 78
American puppeteer 1936–1990Related quotes

“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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