‘Animal Man’ and ‘Swamp Thing’ have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
But of course when people watch morning television, Terry, it’s a very different animal. You know, they’re running around, they’re getting their kids ready for school, they’re probably doing eight million things, they’re brushing their teeth.
I would love to go into an animal’s dream – like a lion’s or a cat’s. I’m sure that’s pretty awesome.
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction – just because if you’re going to have this lone protagonist, they’re going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
I love everybody. I think my totem animal is a Labrador Retriever.
What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.
I would always prefer radio or working behind the scenes where I don’t have to be seen. I don’t like how appearance oriented TV is (especially now that I’m middle aged!). But I am developing a show revolving around animal rescue which will hopefully entertain and maybe do a bit of good for the cause as well.
Married, you’re basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you’re not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you’re passing.
We all get so excited about the big events, but when there’s an animal involved, it’s ten times harder.
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.
The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Plant or animal, black or white, gay or straight, man or woman, I always see things deeper than just a surface. I always look deep inside the person and you will see a beautiful person in every human being.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
‘Born Free’ was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.
I’m a great admirer of Primo Levi’s work. It’s always mind-boggling, the idea of how much pain people can endure and still come back from the edge with a sense of humor, with this tremendous animal desire we have to get on with life.
Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.
My dad was a regular dad. At home, he wasn’t Bonzo the animal. He was a very intellectual, quiet chap – not the beast we all know.
Meryl Streep’s really smart, and she’s a film animal, and she knows that.
Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
I felt like a hunted animal, followed constantly, waiting to be killed.
I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call ‘animal society’ because the former have religion.
Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I’m having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.
Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
I live in a ‘sky island,’ a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there’s no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that’s standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.
I love a wild animal print. Not just a leopard print – I’m talking about a tiger or zebra print, too.
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
I’m a really big animal lover.
You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.
Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.
One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That’s why animals are great.
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
In a movie that’s sort of a single monster movie, like ‘Jaws,’ once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you’re able to start working on ways to take down the threat.
If you like a person you say ‘let’s go into business together.’ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
‘Animal House’ was sort of the first real, contemporary, youthful voice of the baby boom generation. It spoke to that audience, and it spoke to that part of me which was saying, ‘Out with the old, in with the new.’
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
Why isn’t the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn’t allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won’t allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
I’ve been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children’s charities over the years.
I think everybody has their own inner rap spirit animal.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.
I won’t wear fur – never, ever. I’m an animal lover. I wouldn’t even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
And sometimes I actually start to think human life is just as cheap to corporate America as animal life, so long as there are big profits to be made.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I’m a weird kind of animal.
I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things – flora, fauna, human and animal – that exist upon it.
Don’t crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it’s really painful. People think it’s necessary, but it’s painful for the animal, and it’s completely unnecessary.
Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
I’m not a party animal; I took my job as Miss USA very seriously… Sometimes, of course, I want to let it all go. Even though I’m a beauty queen, you’re also an unofficial ambassador, and there’s a lot of pressure.
I’m an animal rights activist because I believe we won’t have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
