When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

The reality of an actor's life is that we do not always have the luxury of choice. We take what comes to us.

I am always interested in working and fun things like health insurance.

I've been proud to work on some really great children's shows, but they are not my only interest.

It just happens that there is more employment for puppeteers in preschool television than anywhere else.

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?

I still remember discovering the classic rock station when I was in high school and being totally blown away by it.

There are lots of stories in pop music, lots of lush orchestrations, lots of attention to detail. You just have to know where to find them. The best stuff is never overt.

The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything.

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.

The soul awakens in times of difficulty by divine grace.

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.

We must endure what fortune sends.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

I think as working actors, it's like sales. You're only as good as your last sale, so you put your all into something and you just hope that from that you can get your next job.

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

I would like one day to play an FBI cop, just so I can hold the gun and shoot.