Jim Henson
Jim Henson
James Maury "Jim" Hensonwas an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, actor, film director, and producer who achieved international fame as the creator of the Muppets. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in Leland, Mississippi, and Hyattsville, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets while attending high school. While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he created Sam and Friends, a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared on television. After graduating from the University of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth24 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
Jim Henson quotes about
We really have a lot of ambitions for this film,
Watch out for the icy patch
It's a wonderful life and I love it.
There's not a word nevertheless, for previous pals who've just fulfilled.
All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.
Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.
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.
No time is wasted time
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Yeah, all the characters in those days were abstract because that was part of the principle that I was working under, that you wanted abstract things.