Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or controversial topics. I think this struck a chord with the LGBT community. We both also share a very strong love for animals. When you combine the two, it's a very strong match.
He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy the immoderate appetite and the still more insatiable vanity of this human being who, destroying others by want, destroys himself by excess.
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.
War. What was it about the prospect of some bloody enterprises that reduced men to the level of animals?
When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.
I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.
I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.
The only difference between kids and jungle animals is pants. Kids wear them. Jungle animals don't.
The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.
And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.
We do not advocate right to life for animals.
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.
one has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
Last year in the U. S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found. . . That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year. . . . Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.
Animals. . . are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.
A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.