Joaquin Phoenix Quotes

A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.

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.

You don't have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There's no reason to kill an animal.

You can get fake fur, which, if that's what you want - if you want that fur look - it looks just the same. It's really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary.

Fashion is supposed to be fun, but killing animals for fashion is definitely not fun.

Fur is not murder, but it is quite expensive.

[Fur] is really ridiculous. It's outrageous. We're not living in igloos. We don't need to trade pelts anymore. There is this diabolical idea that fur is fashionable. It's not. It's death. There's no excuse for it.

Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.

There's nothing fashionable about a dead animal that has been cruelly killed just because some people think it looks cool to wear.

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.

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

But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you're doing it on the red carpet, you're doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

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

I would never wear fur.

Technology is now available that means you don't need to use fur. The alternatives are luxurious. There is just no need.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.

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

I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.

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