The only way the magic works is by hard work. But hard work can be fun. Jim Henson More Quotes by Jim Henson More Quotes From Jim Henson No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. Jim Henson puppeteer competition style It's a wonderful life and I love it. Jim Henson its-a-wonderful-life wonderful-life wonderful When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. Jim Henson puppets saws kids Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling. Jim Henson joyous life-is fun If you can't beat them. Join them Jim Henson beats ifs I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends. Jim Henson good-friend competition best-friend The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life. Jim Henson nature-beauty has-beens inspiration No time is wasted time Jim Henson wasted-time Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far. Jim Henson stars would-be wish 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 film done people Watch out for the icy patch Jim Henson patches icy watches I don't want'a die... I have other plans! Jim Henson dies plans want 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 quality children needs 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 levels couple stuff I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me. Jim Henson muppet said It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous. Jim Henson gorgeous england bird I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint. Jim Henson decided paint wanted 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 style together thinking 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 rocks design fun I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth. Jim Henson vacation real thinking
