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.
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.
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equali...
Animals don't know exactly what will happen when they die any more than we do. In the absence of specific knowledge, they simply trust. They trust death the way they trust life: as participation in the Source. What will happen when they die must be o...
A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!
If you believe that humans are animals, there can be no such thing as the history of humanity, only the lives of particular humans. If we speak of the history of the species at all, it is only to signify the unknowable sum of these lives. As with oth...
Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here...
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh ...
