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

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

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

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

Studios are run by those who are way too old or mostly young, who don't think creatively.

'Jamie' is what my mother gave me, and that takes the onus off of being big. Somebody thinks, 'Oh, Jamie - how threatening can he be?'

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

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

First lead [in a movie] requires a different approach like trying not to give it all away in the first scene. It is a skill, a learned skill.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

My definition of a character actor is - they never get the girl.

As a character actor, I've learned that you have to watch yourself because nobody else is watching. Nobody is concerned with you.

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

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

My friends joke because I will take my clothes off, at the drop of a hat.

Anybody can call me Jamie, and you have to watch it when you call me James. Then there's going to be a problem.

'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.

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.

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

Usually, I'm the kind of actor where you show me once or twice, I can do it. I don't do it creatively, but I know how to do the process.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.