Jim Henson Quotes

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

Life, Keep, Write

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

Hope, Here, Leave

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, Made, Young

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.
Jim Henson

Children, Said, Around

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.
Jim Henson

Art, Design, Off

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Jim Henson

Children, Inside

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.
Jim Henson

Good, Friends, Sense

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
Jim Henson

Wanted, Off, Decided

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson

Working, Between, Everybody

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.
Jim Henson

Show, Interest, Kid

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
Jim Henson

Talk, Actually, Characters

And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.
Jim Henson

Money, Days, Television

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.
Jim Henson

Time, Respect, Before

But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
Jim Henson

Reality, Trying, Dark

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
Jim Henson

Black, Remember, White

I think my own strengths are in television production.
Jim Henson

Television, Production, Strengths

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.
Jim Henson

Design, Acting, Theatre

If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson

Working, Color, Difference

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.
Jim Henson

Character, Real, Made

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Jim Henson

Pretty, Big, Difficult

It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.
Jim Henson

Trying, Same, Actually

NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.
Jim Henson

Black, Trying, Remember

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.
Jim Henson

Somebody, Needs, Several

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.
Jim Henson

Show, Days, Afternoon

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world.
Jim Henson

Work, Design, Fun

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Entertainer

Born: September 24, 1936

Died: May 16, 1990

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