Animals in children’s literature always have a soul life because children perceive animals as having souls.
I came to join the Experience by going for an audition for Eric Burdon who was just forming the New Animals at that point, after the original Animals had broken up.
I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.
In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments.
Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Im an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
William Stryker: [to Logan] I didn't realize Xavier was taking in animals, even animals as unique as you.
The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.
What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.
For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
