Quotes from Tippi Hedren

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

There were so many people who wanted me for their films.

When you love someone, you treat them well.

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

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

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.

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

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

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

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

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

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.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I kind of look at my modeling career and the Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.

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.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

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.

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

One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.

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.