Suzy Parker Quotes

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

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

There's no excuse for fur in this day and age.

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

I just don't think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Not only is fur cruel, it's also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

I'm totally against animal cruelty. I don't have clothes, shoes or bags made from any animal products.

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you're wearing, make that connection, then you realise it's just not right. I don't lecture people about it, but it's not something I'd ever wear.

Of course 'we humans' have a funny relationship with the beings with whom we share our planet. We eat them, we care for them, we admire them, we use them.

All of my friends are animal people. To me, cats are people, too. Animals are people, too. I travel a lot and when I go overseas, it's really hard on me because the animals are treated much differently, especially in developing countries.

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

And there begins a lang digression about the lords o' the creation.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

We'll be back to our nature documentary, 'Baggy the Anorexic Elephant' in just a second.

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.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

When I see someone wearing fur, I just want to sit them down in front of one of PETA's videos and show them just how badly animals suffer for this supposed fabric that no one needs.

I'd rather go naked than wear fur.

I don't wear fur and I understand their cause. I am the biggest animal lover in the world. I have four dogs and two horses, and I have rescued animals all my life.

I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I found some there with fur trim, which is just as disgusting. Foie gras production is appalling - there's no excuse for selling it.