I've got a house full of taxidermy. It's like a museum. I have about 200 pieces in total, all ethically sourced.
We were playing a fair, and a few people were handing me stuffed animals and flowers, but one person handed me a paper sack. So I took all the stuff back to the bus. I put the sack in my lap and opened it, and a live iguana jumped out of the sack and onto my shirt. I screamed like a little girl!
A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.
I was a part of that Beanie Babies generation. I had, like, 400 of them... OK, maybe not that many, but I had a lot of little stuffed animals that I liked to make talk. I was a big dork, and I still am.
I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.
I once went with my grandson to a county fair where you shoot a water pistol at the clown's mouth. We came home with twelve stuffed animals and a goldfish.
I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap.
Stuffed animals are sad and scary; they have humorous and tragic qualities.
I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.
I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.
My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.
I get a lot of stuff from Germany - stuffed bugs and tarantulas.
I'll just stay in [show business] till they stuff me like Trigger, when I drop dead.
I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.
When I was ten years old I wanted to be a taxidermist for some reason, don't ask me why.
Taxidermy is the one thing I collect that I've never used.
I used to wrestle with my stuffed animals.
I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.
I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
