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Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.

Tippi Hedren

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Tippi Hedren
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: January 19
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New Ulm
Minnesota
Nathalie Kay Hedren
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He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.
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Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.
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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.
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Marnie was ahead of its time. People didn't talk about childhood and its effects on adult life. It was taboo to discuss sexuality and psychology and to put all that into a film was shocking.
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I kind of look at my modeling career and the Alfred Hitchcock years as stepping stones to what I'm doing now.
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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.
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Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity.
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I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.
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If people could be as honest as animals, what a different world it would be.
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I was at the end of the studio system so when I walked into movies, I had a magnificent suite in which I had a living room and a kitchen and a complete makeup room. I had everything just for me. With the independents, you're kind of roughing it, literally.
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It's going to be very interesting to see somebody playing me.
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Ive always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect!
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Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.
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I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.
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I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.
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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.
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One lion thinks it's just hilarious to tackle us. He's very funny about it... and we always know when it will happen.
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To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.
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There were so many people who wanted me for their films.
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I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!
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