Top 33 Tippi Hedren Quotes

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Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to

Everything that I’ve done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.
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You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don’t have a good script, it doesn’t mean a thing.
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We had a lion that was living in somebody’s basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
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I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you’re in the movies, you’re rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.
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I really need to work. People think that I’m no longer interested in acting and only interested in working with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I’m a good actor. I think I look OK. I don’t understand why I’m not working all the time.
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I had to have help getting up these stairs because I’ve been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I’m like an old football player.
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If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.
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Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
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I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
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It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don’t be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.
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These are the animals that are the reason why you don’t see old animals in the wild. You don’t see sick animals in the wild. You don’t see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
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So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn’t have an income.
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In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive – especially, Marlon Brando… the cat not the man.
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My light shines when things get really tough.
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He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.
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I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can’t stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can’t bear to take a shower. Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
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Because of ‘The Birds’ and ‘Marnie’ I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.
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You don’t know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.
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I shouldn’t be married.
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Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
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I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn’t tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn’t tell me anything.
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I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
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I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I’m doing now.
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Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
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It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.
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Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.
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Hitchcock had a very strange mind.
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I’m a loner.
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I’ve had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.
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‘Marnie’ was ahead of its time. People didn’t talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
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I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other

I was studying my ‘Bold and Beautiful’ script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand – she wanted to play. See – teeth marks!
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In most states, it’s more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.
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