141 Quotes by Jim Henson

Here's some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself to seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament.

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.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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