Jim Henson Quotes

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I've written because I have a huge love of puppets. There's a big puppet musical at the end of 'Sarah Marshall.' I wrote 'The Muppets.'

I never thought that being a puppeteer was something someone could do as a job.

I hate puppets so much.

When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.

What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be.

The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

Everyone loves puppets.

I dabbled in puppetry throughout college and even had my own traveling puppet show after I graduated.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I directed the play 'Amadeus' with puppets way back in the day for theater. I also studied puppetry at the Eugene and Neil Center with a lot of the 'Sesame Street' people, so I do have a little bit of a history with puppetry.

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

I lived in Europe until I was 9, really.

I think we must all feel that there are people out there who know things about our young selves, you know, our early, early lives, that no one else can ever know.

Memories, impressions and emotions from the first 20 years on earth are most writers' main material; little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant.

I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It's beyond my comprehension.

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.

To be honest, I was never really interested in theatre as a kid.