Quotes by Tippi Hedren

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.
– Tippi Hedren
I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.
– Tippi Hedren
I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. They're always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and he's so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think that's what movies should be about.
– Tippi Hedren
I'm a loner.
– Tippi Hedren
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!
– Tippi Hedren
It quickly became obvious to us that not only the animals in the wild had a problem, but so did the animals in captivity.
– Tippi Hedren
My light shines when things get really tough.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.
– Tippi Hedren
I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
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.
– Tippi Hedren
Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.
– Tippi Hedren