Working with Animals Quotes

I don't necessarily agree that all animals are unpredictable. The more you know about an animal, the more you can work with it safely.

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

Working with crocodiles is always amazing because they're beautiful. They're modern day dinosaurs, which is really cool.

There's that rule, don't work with kids and animals. There's a reason for that!

I really love animals and enjoy working with them.

So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.

You don't cast the animal, per se. You have an animal trainer who looks for several of them. That is a different experience than dealing with actors. That is just difficult. It is what you expect from an animal on the set. You just run a lot of film and prompt it to do the right thing, but sit through it doing all the wrong things first. It's just unbelievably boring, frustrating and painstaking to shoot.

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

My first paid job was leading pony rides along Minehead seafront when I was eight. I probably got paid sixpence - not much but I loved horses and it gave me a great chance to be near them.

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.

I would love to be working in a hospital or in a completely different realm, working with or exploring the lives of animals.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

I'm one of the actors who really enjoys working with kids and animals, which is always a no go. There's something beautiful about it because you tend to forget yourself as an actor.

There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.

I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only work eight hours a day and I love working with animals. Animals have an honesty that human beings reach to find in their lives at the best of times.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.