Top 45 Muppet Quotes

I remember watching ‘The Muppet Show’ in the ’70s. I was six or seven, and my dad watched it with me, and my grandparents watched it with me, and we’re all laughing throughout, but I think we were probably laughing at different things.

I kind of understand now why people freak out when they see celebrities that they love, because that’s how I feel about every single Muppet.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

‘The Muppets’ is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope – and stupid gags.

The Muppets are always really positive when they come across adversity, and they always have the ability to see the good in people.

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.

No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman.

The power of the ‘Muppets,’ and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people’s lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately… Privately, hell, I’m with them for life, and I love these people. They’re my second family.

When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets’ Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn’t yet know the word ‘foreshadowing.’ Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.

I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from ‘the Muppets.’

Watching ‘Dark Crystal’ now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering.

‘The Muppet Show’ spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn’t want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it’s like Dr. Seuss, or as if they’ve skinned Muppets.

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.

The first I bought were records. I don’t know which was first, but I feel like it was the same day. It was ‘The Muppet Show’ soundtrack and Queen’s first album, because it was the only one my brother didn’t have.

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.

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.’

Walt Disney wasn’t making films for kids. Neither were the Muppets. A lot of the great, really cool films, they weren’t making them for kids.

I always say I owe my sense of humor to ‘The Muppets’ because I didn’t necessarily know what was going on when I watched ‘The Muppet Show,’ and obviously, ‘Sesame Street’ was made just for me.

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

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 don’t know exactly when I started watching television, but I know that Muppets and Smurfs hold privileged places in my memory. Without television, I surely could have mastered several classical languages or learned to play the violin, right?

I’m like the luckiest girl in the world. I’ve gotten to be a princess, I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

I’ve said before, if you’re going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you’d better be a Muppet!

You guys own the Muppets, and you’re just kind of sitting on ’em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.

In England, ‘The Muppet Show’ is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K., it is one of the treasures of the history of children’s TV and of comedy, basically.

Funny enough, there have been puppets in everything I’ve written because I have a huge love of puppets. There’s a big puppet musical at the end of ‘Sarah Marshall.’ I wrote ‘The Muppets.’

I watched ‘The Muppet Movie’ obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a pretty mean Fozzie Bear.

I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.

‘Muppets’ was very much an exercise in anti-CG and the anti-effects world. It was very much in camera. We wanted to create a world where tangible puppets walked around and talked to each other. You could touch them. You could meet them.

I’m a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they’re genius. I think they’re some of the best work out there and completely underrated, just because of how genius they are. I love that kind of humor. It’s so innocent but brilliant.

Muppet films are never easy to film ’cause Muppets have no legs.

I never would have thought that in a million years that this would have happened, being in WWE and being in a Muppet film. But for some stroke of luck I guess they both did and I’m loving both of them.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.

I was persuaded to see ‘The Muppets’ by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.

I always wanted to be a Muppet. So when ‘Sesame Street’ approached me to guest star, I thought: ‘I’m going to be on this!’ It’s pretty incredible stuff.

Jim Henson once allowed me to visit the Muppets on set and spent an entire day showing me how he and the other puppeteers performed Kermit and all the characters! After that, I was lucky enough to work with both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on many fun animation projects and learned so much from them.

You can exaggerate with puppets. You’re not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they’re exaggerated creatures.

I have a picture of me sitting on the step of a brownstone stoop with my mom and all the Muppets around us. And Perry Como, for some reason.

I can’t believe I managed to go through a liberal-arts and theater education and take all these women’s-studies classes and never have addressed that the ‘Muppets’ were all boys, except for one pig who was obsessed with herself!

Over its 40 years, Muppets on ‘Sesame Street’ have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent’s deployment overseas, and a death in the family. But the show is addressing incarceration in a way it didn’t used to: by bringing the show directly to the kids and families it wants to reach.

That’s my ultimate goal, is work with the Muppets.

I’ve always liked the Muppets. I watched ‘The Muppet Show’ in England every week as a child. The show was originally broadcast in England.