Tippi Hedren Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Desire, Awful, Obsession

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• Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

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  Self, Parent, Belief

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• I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

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  Animal, Giving, Captivity

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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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  Animal, Done, Leading Me

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• In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

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  Dog, Cat, Texas

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• I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in work-ing with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

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  Animal, Thinking, People

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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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  Expression, Bird, Directors

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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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  Grateful, Careers, Acting

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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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  Football, Player, Lions

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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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  Funny, Men, Serious Man

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• Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!

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  Animal, Pet, Fascination

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• I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.

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  Saint, Patron

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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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  Beautiful, Lying, Hands

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• I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.

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  Mirrors, Looks, Proud

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• I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe.

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  Animal, Thinking, People

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• There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

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  People, Film, Wanted

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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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  People, Childhood, Psychology

  "The blonde queen of King Alfred (II)". Interview with Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 1999.

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• It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

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  Cat, Insanity, Pet

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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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  Thinking, Stories, Actors

  Interview with Briege McGarrity, www.ifqmag.com.

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• I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.

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  Makeup, Kitchen, Rooms

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• I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

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  Strong, Parent, Moral

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• To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

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  Obsession, Horrible, Objects

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• Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

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  Funny, Suspense Novels, Fields

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• Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

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  Animal, Insanity, Captivity

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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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  Cat, Men, Thinking

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