Oscar is the exact opposite of how I think you should behave. I just think of it as a negative view of the positive mind I have. Big Bird is sweet and nice and also sympathetic, as kids can identify with him even though he looks like such a bizarre character - great 8 feet 2 inches, a beak 18 inches long.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.