I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.
Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they’re the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
I’m definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals’ rights.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
Sea World’s killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.
We’re the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true – it has little to do with America – around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don’t follow that.
Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there’s no such thing as a comedian who doesn’t do impressions.
I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.
Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.
Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples.
I’m a vegetarian – I think there’s a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.
People are always the start for me… animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead… these are all people to me.
We need to separate the process of evolution – which is, indeed, a self-serving process – and the actual motivations of animals.
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
I love animals and I love working with them because they don’t lie.
Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu – like the vast majority of new outbreaks – comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
It isn’t true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I love looking after animals. I find it very enjoyable.
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.
From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.
I love very much to draw animals.
Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that’s normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
Artemis women often have difficult childhoods. She’s the kid who seeks comfort in the woods, or animals, or books. If trapped in an authoritarian family, she blends in to get by – but keeps a fierce autonomy inside her head and heart, looking to the day she breaks free.
We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that’s made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
People’s hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals – I’ve never played anyone with whom there’s any overlapping Venn diagram.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Animals feel pain and love and joy, just as humans. But in the industrialised meat, dairy, and egg industries, animals are denied everything that’s natural and important to them. Some of them don’t even feel the fresh air. They don’t see the light.
Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.
We see the moon, don’t we? So it’s our eye. Animals see us, don’t they? So we’re their animals.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
I’ve always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don’t think adults do.
Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.
I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn’t happen with dogs. They’re different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.
My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.
Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.
I love animals, especially dogs, as I can have them as pets too.
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we’ve been living in cities, we’ve become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.
The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don’t understand us.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.
Look at the Seattle Seahawks. They talk it, they walk it and they play like wild animals. Sometimes you need that to win.
Before being humans with morals, people are mostly animals, fighting for domination and survival.
I just realized that if it’s really compassion that drives you, maybe it’s not enough just to stop eating animals but you maybe should boycott the whole animal industry, because… it’s not what you as a compassionate being would want. So actually you should go one step further and become vegan.
