Jim Henson Quotes

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.' - Jim”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

“Here we are sitting at the Waldorf in a conference room... and in comes someone with long hair and wearing an outfit dripping leather. I remember whispering to Dave Connell, "How do we know that man back there isn't going to throw a bomb up here or toss a hand grenade?"
Connell, always one to keep a cool head, assessed the situation with care. He discreetly turned his head toward the back and realized he recognized the tall, angular man carrying a small purse under his arm. A slight smile curled as he assured Cooney the hippie back there posed no threat.
"Not likely, that's Jim Henson," he said.”
― Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

“Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“life is a kind of Labyrinth, with all its twists and turns, its straight paths and its occasional dead ends.”
― Jim Henson

“You are cruel, Sarah. We are well matched, you and I. I need your cruelty, just as you need mine.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Quite often, young lady, it seems we're not getting anywhere, when in fact we are.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“She wondered what was the point of doing anything. She might as well go this way, or that, or stand still, or cry. Maybe just havin' yourself a good time was the best anyone could hope for.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Sometimes," the Wise Man observed, "to need is...to let go.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“I believe that my father had some kind of direct experience of the spiritual nature of reality, maybe a vision, that he tried to convey perhaps unconsciously in his work- that there is a different, more loving and transcendent reality beyond this world of imagined conflicts.”
― Lisa Henson

“Then you will find what you want only as long as you stay in your dream. Once abandon it, and you are at the mercy of other people's dreams. They will make of you what they want you to be. Forget them, Sarah, trust to your dream.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Everything altered. The room was the same as it had always been, night and morning, day after day for as long as Sarah could remember, but she was seeing it with new eyes. It was all fabricated from pieces of scrap, everything was rubbish, relics. All her things, the furniture, even the walls, the whole room was a garbage heap, a dead shrine to a spirit that had fled.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“You can propose on our honeymoon
[Miss Piggy to Kermit the Frog]”
― Miss Piggy

“I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.

The Cookie Monster.

Whatever, Rashid”
― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories

“Walter noticed the blue Cookie Monster head resting on the floor, From some angles, the smiling open mouth looked like an expression of abashed joy, from others it resembled horror.”
― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories

“Indeed, [Jimmy] Dean believed in Rowlf so completely that he would sometimes genuinely break up when Rowlf delivered one-liners, laughing so hard that he was unable to sing. "I treated Rowlf like he was real, but he WAS real to me," Dean said, "and I think that's one of the reasons he made such an impression on everyone.”
― Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography