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American - Actor Born: January 27, 1942

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

Life Responsibility Pet Care

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.

Stand Non-Violence Decide Turn

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

Relationship People Think Environment

I drove through the stockyards of Texas on a motorcycle. It doesn't let you escape what surrounds you and what it smells like and feels like - and what hit me was the realization that something that was alive and had feelings will suffer before a piece of it is placed on our plates.

Me You Motorcycle Feelings

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

Fly Need Eat Run

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

Attitude Animals Farm Personal

I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.

Revenge Picture Want Anything

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Women Men Children Celebrate

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of this a great popularity contest and now, it's an incredible show and it's seen all over the world.

World Great Pictures Awards

Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

You Think Creation Key

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I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

Me People World Think

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

Animal Talk Some Without

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

Health Food Year Doing

But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.

Life You People World

I was told by my agent that a number of big stars won't work with anyone two inches taller than them and most of them are under six feet, so you have to be prepared to have trouble.

Work Stars You Feet

My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.

Death Me Comedy Think

'Barney Miller' was a lot of fun. I'm very fond of Abe Vigoda. Most - a lot of people on that cast - I really liked.

People Fun Most Very

I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.

Politics Believe Struggle Think

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

Anniversary Theatre Birth London

I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.

Look Eye See Story

I play an 89-year-old man whose wife has Alzheimer's in a movie called 'Still.' I play a World War II veteran, I acted with my son and it's called 'Memorial Day.'

War Day Son Man

I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.

Internet Place More Lonely

I say a lot of things I shouldn't say.

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.

Me Mother Father Humanity

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.

Believe Animal Way I Believe

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

Culture White Wrong Something

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