Quotes from Joe Exotic

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.

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

I have pretty good, strong support in Tulsa.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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

My soul is dead.

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

I'm outspoken, good looking, love to party and have fun.