All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration to me, both in their craft and in their humanity.

If a kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming, they would never touch meat again.

I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.

The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.

What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

Hillary Clinton has gotten every foreign policy challenge wrong.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.