Muppet Quotations

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche.

Nobody else could do that kind of writing?. He was the Muppet writer.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.

We're used to releasing Muppet movies in the off-season, not on the on-season. We've always done well that way.

What happened was that because my dad had made 'Sesame Street' and it was a huge hit, everyone said, 'Oh, ('The Muppet Show') is for kids. We don't want something that's feeling extra silly.' It was never intended to be for kids. My dad was a very determined salesman. He always had faith that his work would be successful. He never stopped trying to sell The Muppets.

It started off as this little joke and ended very grandiose kind of like the theme from 'The Muppet Show,' kind of how that was humorous but it was supposed to be very grand at the same time, very operatic, ... When everyone came back, Billie heard it and he was like, 'Oh, my God. That sounds so fun. I want to do one.' So he did one. He connected it to mine. ... We just kept playing musical hot potato.

If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

I always wanted to be a Muppet.

At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'

My favorite Muppet? Uh... Kermi -- no, Animal. Animal is my favorite now.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.