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Jim Henson
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Jim Henson
Age: 53 †
Born: 1936
Born: September 24
Died: 1990
Died: May 16
Actor
Animator
Film Director
Film Producer
Puppeteer
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Greenville
Mississippi
James Maury Henson
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More quotes by Jim Henson
No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style.
Jim Henson
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.
Jim Henson
It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.
Jim Henson
If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Jim Henson
(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.
Jim Henson
[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.
Jim Henson
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
Jim Henson
Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
Jim Henson
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
Jim Henson
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
I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
Jim Henson
Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.
Jim Henson
The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.
Jim Henson
I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.
Jim Henson
A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.
Jim Henson
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!
Jim Henson
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
I don't want'a die... I have other plans!
Jim Henson
All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
Jim Henson