10 Quotes By Jim Henson


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 on art

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 on design

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

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 on design

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

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 on hope

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

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

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.
Jim Henson on relationship

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 on respect