Tippi Hedren

“So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“These are the animals that are the reason why you don't see old animals in the wild. You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.”

“We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.”

“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.”

“You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.”

“Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.”

“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.”

“It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.”

“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.”

“I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.”

“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.”

“Right now I'm looking at a liger out my bedroom window. He's half lion and half tiger. And he's absolutely beautiful. His name is Patrick.”

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

“I've 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!”