Jim Henson: Self, Kermit the Frog

Quotes 

• Johnny Carson : Kermit - I love Kermit. Do you find...

  Kermit the Frog : Thank you! Thank you! It's a pleasure to be here - yes.

  Johnny Carson : ...Did you, uh...

  Kermit the Frog : Thank you! Hello out there!... Got a lot of pigs in the audience.

• Johnny Carson : What'd you have to eat on the plane?

  Kermit the Frog : Oh. I see, uh - they fixed me, uh, regular frog food.

  Johnny Carson : Frog food?

  Kermit the Frog : Had a cheeseburger.

  Johnny Carson : Cheeseburger.

  Kermit the Frog : Chocolate milkshake.

  Johnny Carson : Chocolate milkshake.

  Kermit the Frog : All those things that us frogs eat.

• Johnny Carson : Where are you going, Kermit, when you leave here tonight? Anyplace...

  Kermit the Frog : Oh, back to the swamp... Where do frogs live? You know, frogs live in a swamp.

  Johnny Carson : You have a home there?

  Kermit the Frog : Oh, sure.

  Johnny Carson : Yeah.

  Kermit the Frog : It's a fifth-floor walk-up.

• Kermit the Frog : Frogs don't get - really get married.

  Johnny Carson : Oh, right - they don't.

  Kermit the Frog : No... You think that's going somewhere?

• Kermit the Frog : There's not many opportunities for frogs... Not many of us get work, get jobs.

  Johnny Carson : Well, NBC is an equal frog employer.

  Kermit the Frog : Yes.

  Johnny Carson : So that, uh... comes out that well.

  Kermit the Frog : Well, I'm just a token frog, though.

• Jim Henson : [on Johnny watching Kermit in the monitor]  It's a strange thing, 'cause when I'm working, I usually try to see a monitor myself - 'cause that's how we work on television.

  Johnny Carson : Yeah - you see?

  Jim Henson : And...

  Johnny Carson : What do you do when you're not...

  Jim Henson : When I'm working blind, I'm not looking at the monitor; I really don't know what he's doing too much.

• Johnny Carson : What do you do when you're not working with Jim?

  Kermit the Frog : I don't know... play a little tennis, you know.