I always wanted to be a Muppet.

Ronald Reagan is the world's largest Muppet.

At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

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

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

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

Stephen Merchant looks like a Muppet. I mean, he looks like Beaker.

Life is like The Muppet Show, but instead of Muppets there's anxiety.

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

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

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

For 'Beasts,' I really wanted my character to be this sort of mushy, muscleless Muppet.

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

Cassandra,” he said, “I hope you know that poaching Muppets is illegal in this country.

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

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

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

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

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

'The Muppets' is really about innocence and charm and sweetness and light and having hope - and stupid gags.

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

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

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.'

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

I did Nancy Sinatra in Vegas a number of times, and then the Sinatra family, when we did Frankie and the Muppets. Big show in Vegas.

I grew up watching the 'Muppets.' In New Zealand, the 'Muppets' were as big as anywhere else I think. It was a pretty global phenomenon.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

I think I learned everything about comedy and timing and drama from watching 'The Muppet Show,' which was one of the best shows ever produced.

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.

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.

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.

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.

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.

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.

I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.

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.

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.

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.

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.

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.

The 'Muppets' were a very big part of my childhood, and 'Flight of the Conchords' definitely has elements of the 'Muppets' in it, specifically the way we mixed music and comedy.

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.

I loved 'Dumbo.' I watched Bugs Bunny time and again. The Muppets were big, too. All of those, they have this real, not darkness but poignancy, that's what makes it stick with you.

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