Caroll Spinney Quotes

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.

– Caroll Spinney