The best Quotes by Oscar the Grouch

[Asked why he lives in a trash can] Well, the rent is cheap and I love trash, so I figured I would be close to it if I lived in a trash can myself.

Oh, I love trash!
Anything dirty or dingy or dusty
Anything ragged or rotten or rusty
Yes, I love trash!

You'd be a grouch, too, if you lived in a trash can.

I look a little like Beaker. I think I'm a cross between Beaker and The Count. My hair looks like Oscar the Grouch. It's Muppety hair.

The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Elmo thinks it's important to be kind because if you're kind to somebody, then they'll be kind to somebody, and it goes on and on and on.

Home is where heart is. Heart where cookie is. Math clear: home is cookie.

Ernie: "You know, whenever I'm not sleepy, Bert tells me to count sheep."
Count: "‘Count Sheep?’ Who's that?"

Bad days happen to everyone, but when one happens to you, just keep doing your best and never let a bad day make you feel bad about yourself.

Early bird gets the worm. But cookie taste better than worm. So me sleep in.

Cookie is like high five for stomach.

Where there is life, there is hope.

Everyone makes mistakes, so why can't you?

It is I, your furry pal, Grover!

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I think I veered towards filmmaking because there's more of a sense of control in it. You're not waiting to be picked. That said, in film school I acted in probably 6,000 student films because no other filmmakers knew anyone who wanted to act. It was all a big beautiful snake eating its tail, progressing along the way.

I never imagined I would have one fan, and there seems to be a few. I just couldn't be happier that people seem to like what I'm doing and seem to respond to it. If they weren't there, I don't know what I'd be doing right now.

Me love to eat cookies. Sometimes eat whole, sometimes me chew it.

Today me will live in the moment, unless it's unpleasant in which case me will eat a cookie.

Sometimes me think, "What is a friend?" And then me say, "a friend is someone to share the last cookie with."

[Ernie] I can't hear you, I have a banana in my ear.

Bert: "Ernie... did I make a complete fool of myself?"
Ernie: "Absolutely, Bert."

Statler: "Mit den Jahren gefällt mir die Show immer besser."
Waldorf: "Weil die Witze immer besser werden?"
Statler: "Nein, weil mein Gehör immer schlechter wird!"

Statler: "Do you think this show is educational?"
Waldorf: "Yes. It'll drive people to read books."

With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet.

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can.

If you keep practicing, you can do anything.

It's incredible where you can go with your imagination.

Greetings it is I the Count. They call me the Count because I love to count things.

Waldorf: "Statler isn't here tonight, Kermit. He's sick."
Kermit: "Oh, that's too bad. The flu?"
Waldorf: "No, the show. He's sick of it."

Waldorf: "Just when you think the show is terrible, something wonderful happens."
Statler: "What?"
Waldorf: "It ends."

Changes happen as time passes by. Soon enough, you'll be grown.

You are what you eat, which I guess makes me part mosquito.