Joe Exotic

“My soul is dead.”

“When I left the zoo and I sent my chimpanzees to the sanctuary in Florida and imagined what my chimpanzees went through for 18 years, I'm ashamed of myself.”

“One day he just showed up at the zoo, and I actually didn't know who the man was. Everybody was like, 'that's Shaq!' And I'm like 'who's Shaq?'”

“There is nothing wrong with professional pet owners and private breeders of exotic animals. And I would be the first to fight to take away an animal from an irresponsible owner.”

“Just because you have an exotic animal as a pet does not make you a danger or irresponsible.”

“I am gay. I've had two boyfriends most of my life.”

“I'm not changing the way I dress: I refuse to wear a suit.”

“Do you know why animals die in cages? Their soul dies.”

“I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.”

“Does it feel good to stand on my stage with 500-pound tigers and everybody envy you? Absolutely.”

“I'm done with the Carole Baskin saga.”

“The animal industry has sucked the life out of me for the past 20 years. I need a break.”

“This is my way of living, and nobody's gonna tell me otherwise.”

“You'll never meet a bigger, nicer guy than Shaq.”

“People don't come to see the tigers; they come to see me.”

“For 30 years since the liger has been in existence, everyone thought they were sterile. But we paired a baby liger and a baby white tiger male six years ago and came up with the first tiliger. That proved female ligers weren't sterile.”

“I'm not cutting my hair because I'm not going to be fake.”

“I saw in my life what pushed a lot of people to drugs was being an outcast to society, so being gay I related to that.”

“I learned more in 11 months in running for president than I did in 12 years of school.”

“My problem anywhere is the damn Republicans closed out the independents from being able to vote in the primary.”