Tippi Hedren Quotes

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

When I write about animals, I use anthropological techniques and the language you would use for a person. You don't have to anthropomorphize animals, just acknowledge their individuality.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Future benefits rarely figure in the minds of animals.

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

We're all animals.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

When I'd written my 'Silverwing' series - I'd imbued the bats with full human awareness and vocabulary.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

I've just always loved animals.