Sam Simon Quotes

To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

I've become an animal rights activist.

I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

I appreciate people trying to stand up for animals.

The kind of flinching from any form of art or experience that PETA seems to advocate is ultimately life-hating.

We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.

We should all love animals.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.

Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.

I love working with PETA.