Famous quotes by Entertainers

"Most people would like to be delivered from temptation, but would like it to keep in touch"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"There's so much pollution in the air now that, if it weren't for our lungs, there'd be no place to put it all"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people!"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"Do your kids a favor - don't have any"

Robert Orben, Entertainer

"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, Entertainer

"When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"At the University of Maryland, my first year, I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design, or television design"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"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"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"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, Entertainer

"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I think my own strengths are in television production"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it, and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Actually, the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles, but just for your information, most characters there's only one"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter, I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland, I was doing posters for their productions"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions, and so there will be several of them"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

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