With other people she can play humans. With me, it's completely non-human characters.


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MARISOL NICHOLS
I would do anything Tim [Burton] wanted me to. You know - have sex with an aardvark... I would do it...
JOHNNY DEPP
Maybe I should do something totally different and film a cracking porn with Tim [Burton],
JOHNNY DEPP
I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
NICOLAS CAGE
For some of us, Halloween is everyday.
TIM BURTON
One of the best films made by Tim Burton.
JOE PERRY
When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking ...
TIM BURTON
She has a great vision. She should have Tim Burton be a director and she's the set designer for some...
STEVE HOFFMAN
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
CASPER DIEN
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
CASPER VAN DIEN
Tim Burton... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him.
CASPER VAN DIEN
I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
DAN GILROY
These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.
RICHARD D. ZANUCK
I love Tim Burton; I really just love the guy.
LUKE MEADOWS
Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
KELLY ASBURY
I support the rights of non-humans wholeheartedly with my voice, my money, my presence, my writing a...
CECILIA DART-THORNTON
[Corpse Bride (Sept. 23) With Tim Burton riding high upon the sweet success of] Charlie and the Choc...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks pe...
TIM BURTON
Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the y...
DAVID ZUCKER
How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approache...
JOHNNY DEPP
I receive Income from you, can you point one reason why not to be nice with ya?
DEYTH BANGER
For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!
EVA GREEN
The sickened human is something to be experimented with.
STEVEN MAGEE
I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life does...
CHRISTOPHER LEE
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or h...
PETER SINGER
The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent ...
GARY L. FRANCIONE
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It&#...
ELIZABETH MARVEL
Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also importan...
LEONARD MLODINOW
I love to exspand my mind/imagination. There's two things that do the job: Tim Burton and drugs.
ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functio...
ALAN BALL
It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least on...
SōSEKI NATSUME
Europe is ready to strengthen its dialogue and cooperation in line with progress made in human right...
JACQUES CHIRAC
Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stun...
LIZ MOORE
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special func...
JOHAN HUIZINGA
I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp...
DAVID THEWLIS
Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burt...
SOPHIE TURNER
I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would'v...
WINONA RYDER
Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I...
MARC DAVIS
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me t...
RAHUL KOHLI
Ever console or scold people hurt in human relationships that satisfaction comes from God alone? Sto...
JOHN ORTBERG JR.
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
SNOW PATROL
One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old an...
ELIZABETH MOON
Where you are with what you have, what you can do.
DHARM BABU
I always had trouble with the Bruce Wayne in the comic book," Burton said. "I mean, if this guy is s...
GLEN WELDON
Tim put other people before himself. He was an example of how you would want to be. Tim loved people...
ANN STANGE
I taught her everything she knows, ... She played with me last year, and look what's happened. I hop...
DANA QUIGLEY
I went and met with Tim Burton for the role of Batman. But I just couldn't really take it seriou...
PIERCE BROSNAN
Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in...
CHRISTIANE NUSSLEIN-VOLHARD
I think she's too single for me, and she thinks I'm with two other people. She also thinks she think...
WILL ADVISE
My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like...
MICHAEL CAINE
Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie...
JEFF GILES
In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and ...
JAAN TALLINN
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
There was something about him that drove the shyness out of you, a kind of understanding that went d...
ARTHUR GORDON
As life is a breath, savoring is a held exhale, a placeholder for joy.
JUDY PURCELL
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everythi...
CHRISTIAN D. LARSON
„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER
I was a big fan of the Tim Burton films. I really liked the character. And I remember thinking the B...
SAM HEUGHAN
Working with Tim Burton is like a psychic experience -Tim waves his hands and says, 'I don't...
CAROLINE THOMPSON
Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I ...
CHARLIE SIMPSON
I want to be host of 'SNL.' I want to work with Steven Spielberg, Leonardo DiCaprio, J.J. Ab...
DAVID MAZOUZ
Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie ...
GREG CAMPBELL
Without this chair, she can't go to school or play with other kids.
GARY BESONG
I fear my oppositions 30% but I fear the one sleeping with me 70%.
FRANCIS MATHEW
The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF
Humans should be grateful if they haven't been in contact with
aliens, while humans are still m...
TOBA BETA
I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE
‘A child can play with its mother’s breasts, but not its father’s testicles’ – Guinea
GUINEAN PROVERB
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that ...
EDI RAMA
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No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others ...
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
What good is having any friends if you can't use them...
VIOLETA GARCIA
A woman's reputation is her worth... IT is the way it is. You may hate me for saying so, but there i...
LIBBA BRAY
I like myself better when I'm with you.
MITCH ALBOM
Work for your satisfaction & which serves a cause.If you work only for applause,it will loose its pu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
What is wrong with America? When we idolize false gods and other things rather than worshipping the ...
NORM TOMLINSON
When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE
The doctors with ailments not willing to take the treatment should be treated first. The doctors wit...
APURVA GAGLANI
What woman would not appreciate a God who becomes her attorney, assumes her case, requires no fee, a...
T.D. JAKES
You run with time , it is in day or night has less important. If not run then time run away. You nee...
DR. SHAILESH THAKER
I am too perfect... to be here with you...
DEYTH BANGER
…If anything else, all I ever did was love you….
BETH FANTASKEY
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is coll...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossil...
RICHARD LEAKEY
Being humans don't act in a way, That may relate you to non-humans.
ABDUL SALAM
I attribute the black tones in my films to Stephen King, Tim Burton, Joe Hill and Richard Matheson. ...
ANNA AKANA
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they s...
OCTAVIA BUTLER
There is a definite willingness to be completely co-operative, be completely transparent and to exch...
ELIAS ZERHOUNI
She was actually an owner surrender and she had a lot of submissive problems with other dogs and hum...
ISAAC RODRIGUEZ
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
ZOE LISTER-JONES
Most people think we depend on her [Harris], and we do, but we also have other good players. We can ...
ASHLEY LLOYD
Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Bring out others better side and they are more likely to see and support yours. You can't develop po...
KARE ANDERSON
In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN
In the past, humans hesitated when they took lives, even non-human lives. But society had changed, a...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI
Cassie has been solid for us this year. She's dependable and has the attitude that she can play with...
JOE HILLOCK
With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. Ther...
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ROBERT BURTON
All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON
'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON
[Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON
Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON
Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON
Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON
Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON
Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON
Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON
He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON
Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON
The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON
Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON