93 Quotes by Tippi Hedren

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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 quickly became obvious to us that not only the animals in the wild had a problem, but so did the animals in captivity.

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    It's not for anyone who is faint of heart. It's a monumental effort to keep these animals.

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    The female characters that Hitch would choose-he would take these women and try to tear them down, with basically the man's control. She would not want to give in, and he would insist upon it.

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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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    '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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    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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    To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

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