"The people who worked for Jim felt like family and he treated them like family."

"No, I don't believe we've ever designed a character around a person. Usually, we start out with a kind of personality."

"With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the …"

"Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have."

"I'm sure Kermit will stay young a lot longer than I will."

"The puppets in 'Dark Crystal' were very complicated, and some quite unpleasant. In that movie, I think we got into ar…"

"With puppets, I don't think you should try to duplicate what humans do. It can cause problems."

"Puppetry's a lot harder than people realize, and it's particularly difficult doing a movie. You have this scene with …"

"In actuality, Muppets was a word we just coined. It was merely to be the name of our act. ... I used to say to people…"

"Jim giggled when he laughed. His sense of humor could be sly and wicked."