You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely.

There's a cyclical nature to what people like in the world. Through time, things come around again.

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.

Inevitably in any work you do I think that there is a sense of continuity, and I like that.

I am always a great fan of keeping things on an eye level for comedy because it plays better.

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized.

Honestly, puppets themselves are actors effectively. The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

I am a great believe that your humor is developed at a very early age and it doesn't ever change.

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 the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

Sometimes you have to go 'yippee-ki-yay' on a person who deserves it.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

If you do not love too much, you do not love enough.

Our posture NOW defines our portion later!

Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

As a man, you got to know how to take it, so I just took it.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.