Tippi Hedren

Notable Quotes



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.

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'Marnie' was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.

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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.

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It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

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Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

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

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

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

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I'm regarded as the patron saint of manicurists.

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Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

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