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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow.”

“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.”

“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.”

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