To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

I really need to work. People think that I'm no longer interested in acting and only interested in work-ing with the animals. Obviously I have given that impression, but it is not how I feel. I think I'm a good actor. I think I look OK. I don't understand why I'm not working all the time.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.