Tajah Henson Quotes

#1. It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums. #Quote by Bill Henson

#2. Jim Henson was an absolute genius. #Quote by Marcus Brigstocke

#3. It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough. #Quote by Brian Henson

#4. Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me #Quote by Jim Henson

#5. And then while she's lip-syncing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," to this little head next to her, the head eats the cloth fabric and swallows it and it's sort of this weird, demonic character there, who then tries to eat the singer. But it's a lot of fun. So there's a couple of pieces like that. #Quote by Brian Henson

#6. Jim (Henson) should have ****in fired me several times ... #Quote by Frank Oz

#7. For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture. #Quote by Bill Henson

#8. So it's Rosemary Clooney - Rosemary? Rosemary Clooney, right? The singer? Yes. Clooney, doing, singing, "I've Grown Accustomed To Your Face," which is, you know, really a love song, but what we see on stage is we see one puppet that's got a ridiculous blonde wig on and she looks ridiculous, and next to her is a head that's just a piece of fabric with a pretty face on it. #Quote by Brian Henson

#9. I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King. #Quote by Bresha Webb

#10. I was always amazed at how beautiful the light was. At different times of the day the landscape becomes a different place. Dawn and dusk, it's a different place. #Quote by Bill Henson

#11. I really wish Hollywood would stop labeling movies, especially movies with predominantly black casts. Then, it makes others feel like, "Oh, well, that's not for me." At the end of the day, everybody understands love, loss, pain and heartbreak. That's not a color. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#12. 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. #Quote by Jim Henson

#13. The show is probably 60 percent improvising and 40 percent not. So there's quite a bit of it that we do have prepared and that part of it, you have memorized and you've rehearsed and you're prepared, just like any show. #Quote by Brian Henson

#14. We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we've done traditionally. And that's what brought us here and now we're here. #Quote by Brian Henson

#15. I'm nothing without God. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#16. The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad. #Quote by Brian Henson

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

The Cookie Monster.

Whatever, Rashid #Quote by Rion Amilcar Scott

#18. Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not. #Quote by Jim Henson

#19. One day I was standing with my stage manager, Sandy Prudden, and Buddy Sheffield watching as Kermit the Frog (with the help of the late Jim Henson) sweetly sang a song. Sandy was always a big joker. He sidled up to me and said, "Isn't it amazing the way Kermit can sing like that with somebody's hand up his ass." Without missing a beat, I came back with, "Shoot, that ain't nothin'. I did that for seven years on the 'The Porter Wagoner Show. #Quote by Dolly Parton

#20. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems #Quote by Jim Henson

#21. We're also irreverent, we have an irreverent attitude towards puppets, as well. So a lot of what we do is we're kind of making fun of the puppets for being puppets, even while we're doing it. And again, that all feeds into the absurdity of this show. #Quote by Brian Henson

#22. 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. #Quote by Jim Henson

#23. In every form of art, you really want the experience of the images to transcend the medium, for the medium to disappear into the greater experience of viewing the work. So that you forget you are looking at a painting, or a photograph. #Quote by Bill Henson

#24. Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#25. When I said I would be the judge of your worth, I did not mean that I owned your life, Rowan Jun.
Garyn Kei #Quote by Tamara Henson

#26. 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. #Quote by Jim Henson

#27. When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#28. I love New York. Love it. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#29. When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them. #Quote by Jim Henson

#30. Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#31. So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera. #Quote by Brian Henson

#32. On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#33. What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality. #Quote by Bill Henson

#34. When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all! #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#35. I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director. #Quote by Brian Henson

#36. Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. #Quote by Keith Henson

#37. And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make sure that we hold onto the vision and kind of corral it, but by the time you finish whatever the project is, a TV show, a series, a movie, a stage show, it should be a product of what all those people can do, and therefore, it can never be what you imagined it would be in the beginning. #Quote by Brian Henson

#38. I hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting. #Quote by Taraji P. Henson

#39. I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good. #Quote by Jim Henson

#40. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me. #Quote by Jim Henson

#41. I was a great fan of Jim Henson. #Quote by Terri Windling

#42. When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though. #Quote by Caroll Spinney

#43. 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. #Quote by Jim Henson

#44. I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you. #Quote by Keaton Henson