Tippi Hedren Quotes
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We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
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I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.
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My light shines when things get really tough.
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In fact, I think I have had a ghost in my house. Although not active lately, unexplainable things would happen and the kitties were particularly sensitive - especially, Marlon Brando... the cat not the man.
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Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.
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There were so many people who wanted me for their films.
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I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
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If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.
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I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
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I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
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He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.
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I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.
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I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.
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Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.
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It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
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Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.
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I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!
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Hitchcock had a very strange mind.
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You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
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I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.
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Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
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Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.
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You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.
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So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
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I really like birds. Everyone always wants me to say that I can't stand to go near them, just like they want Janet Leigh to confess that she can't bear to take a shower. Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
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It is up to the public to stop attending these theatrical, and aquatic shows, and circuses with wild animals. The rhetoric about how the animals are happy and well cared for are lies. Don't be swayed by them. The money behind these shows is huge; there is nothing good about them.
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Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
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It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.
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I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
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