Tippi Hedren Quotes

• 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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• We have a lion, tiger, liger, which is the father is a lion and the mother is a tiger, black and spotted leopard, mountain lion, Asian leopard cats. Weve got a tremendous number of the exotic feline.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn’t tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn’t tell me anything.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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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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• 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.

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• I really need to work. People think that I’m no longer interested in acting and only interested in working 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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• You don’t know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

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• We had a lion that was living in somebody’s basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

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

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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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• So I do have to work, you know, and I find as many movies and TV shows that I can, because otherwise I wouldn’t have an income.

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• One lion thinks it’s just hilarious to tackle us. He’s very funny about it… and we always know when it will happen.

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Tippi Hedren (53)

Birth:	19th January, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

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• 1969 - David Wain
• 1946 - Rick Boucher
• 1965 - Sam Mendes
• 1956 - Tom Leykis
• 1936 - Yves Saint Laurent

Deaths

• 2003 - Marie Trintignant
• 1987 - Pola Negri
• 1957 - Rose Fyleman
• 1973 - Walter Ulbricht
• 1940 - Paul Hirsch