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

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

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.

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

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.

'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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.