No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I am astonished and surprised that someone could consider making a film about me without talking to me about it.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

I had lots of opportunities to survive this [popularity] madness. Madame de Staël said, "Glory is the bright mourning of happiness."

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals are made of flesh and blood like us, that they suffer the same pains as us, that they deserve the same respect as us and that their continuous slaughter should not be part of human entertainment.