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.
My light shines when things get really tough.
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.
Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.
If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.
Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.
Hitchcock had a very strange mind.
You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.
You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.
It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.
I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the contract. He didn't let her. She did 'Psycho,' and I believe, if you look at 'Psycho,' there isn't one close up of Vera, not one. After that, she would never even speak about him to anyone.
One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.
I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
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.
I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!
I shouldn't be married.
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.
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.
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.
When you love someone, you treat them well.
Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.
