When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

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.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.

I have shed enough tears over you lately and you don't deserve any of them

Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.

Let's put it this way: I am confident that Schengen will continue to be defended. And when it comes to repatriations, we have the same opinion.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.