Top 75 Fur Quotes

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of animals. The patterning is the same, but the proportions of the body change from one animal to the next. A lot of it is just geometry and consciousness.

I won’t wear fur – never, ever. I’m an animal lover. I wouldn’t even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

The director is planning on titling the film ‘Yummy Fur’ so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to ‘Yummy Fur’ to match the film.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It’s a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

If you absolutely must express yourself with the use of animal hide, fur, antlers etc., then at the very least make sure it has been harvested responsibly and humanely.

When you’re young, no one cares who your parents are, although Mum would arrive to pick me up in her full hair and make-up and fur, and I used to say, ‘Can’t you just dress normally, like all the other mums?’ I wanted her to blend in more, but I’ve always been really proud of Mum – as proud as she is of me.

When I finished touring ‘Fur and Gold,’ I was just like, ‘What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?’ I didn’t really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada.

I never wear fur, and I am a spokesperson for PETA.

I would never wear fur.

I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it’s so pretty! Also, I’m not a big fur person, but I’ll do a vintage fur every now and then.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

Istanbul in the snow is a wonder. The extravagant pleasures on show in the Topkapi Palace Museum – the sultan’s robes thickly lined with squirrel fur, mobile foot-braziers to keep out a cold that whips relentlessly off the Bosphorus – presage modern-day sultanic delights.

Abuse yourself all you want – just leave animals out of it. Don’t wear fur.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it’s a status symbol. That doesn’t register for me; I just see dead animals.

Cuddly toy rabbits were a real comfort for all of my babies – once they got to a certain age they would nuzzle the fur.

When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls.

Now that I’m on Broadway, it’s like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, ‘Venus in Fur’; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

It’s not a normal every day thing to see yourself with fur, but I loved it.

The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

You can get fake fur, which, if that’s what you want – if you want that fur look – it looks just the same. It’s really unnecessary to skin an animal when you can get something that looks just the same without hurting anything.

My couch is made of cat’s hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it’s made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can’t have visitors. I can’t ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they’re walking around, and it’s not fair to people.

It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.

Ethical fashion is the future of fashion. Gucci’s decision to ban fur is a smart step in the right direction – for the environment, for animal rights, and for its massive base of young brand fans who will soon represent the largest consumer base in history.

I wore a woman’s antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, ‘I won’t do this!’ I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, ‘I don’t wear fur; cancel this show!’

I’ve got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women’s clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I was weaned on chicken-fried steak and hominy grits with goopy gravy all over. I loved meat and wore fur.

I think I had a fur coat that someone bought me from Portobello Market back in the 1960s, but I think as soon as you think about it, what it is you’re wearing, make that connection, then you realise it’s just not right. I don’t lecture people about it, but it’s not something I’d ever wear.

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.

Dogs are fur repositories for everything you can’t say to humans.

I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it’s horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.

In the past, I have approximated the look of monkey fur and yak hair with human hair because it’s inexpensive, and it lasts a long time.

I’d rather go naked than wear fur.

I think it’s refreshing that someone on TV can admit they drink beer, eat meat, and wear fur.

I’m not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I would never hunt. I would never wear fur. I would never go to a bullfight. I’m not really a meat and potatoes guy.

The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?

I work best when there is adversity: I seem to get calmer the more the fur is flying.

Faux fur is not really warm.

I think the reality is that, for me, real fur is extraordinarily old fashioned. I think you look old. Even if you’re 20, and you’ve got a real fur coat, you just look like an old, unaware, unconscious being on the planet. It’s not relevant, it’s not sexy, it’s not fashionable, and it’s not cool.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals’ backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

But if an actress asks me my opinion, I would tell her there are a million different designers who make faux fur. If you like that look, wear faux fur. If you’re doing it on the red carpet, you’re doing it for how it looks. Faux fur and real fur look the same on camera.

I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of ‘Vogue,’ even though I won’t purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.

Most women have jobs that require them to leave the house. A cat is actually a perfect pet. You get the love and companionship of a creature covered in fur, and you don’t have to take it for a walk, and it can feed itself. Less maintenance. Surely any man can appreciate the practicality of this choice.

I’d rather go naked than wear fur.

I just don’t think animals should be slaughtered for their fur.

Not only is fur cruel, it’s also totally gross. I mean, who wants to wear the skin of an abused animal? Not me!

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it’s a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don’t use animal skins or fur of any kind.

Modern fake fur looks so much like real fur that the moment it leaves the atelier, no one can tell it’s not the real thing. And I’ve struggled with that.

Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think ‘Oh, my God, it’s just a little trim,’ that animal got clubbed.

Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They’re so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.

I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you’re looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.

By Hollywood standards I’m still fat: until you are zero, you are big. I do get cold a lot now. I used to have a lot of layers – now I got to get a fur coat.

We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary.

I’ve been awarded fur coats and I’m hoping to stop it in our pageant community.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Fur is only of use to the animal that wears it.

‘Venus in Fur’ is very Polanski: you have the knife of ‘Rosemary’s Baby’; you have Thomas disguised as a woman as in ‘The Tenant,’ when Vanda puts makeup on him, it’s like ‘Cul de Sac’; the dress of Tess and other details that are very Polanski. He fell in love with the play because it was so much him.

You don’t have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There’s no reason to kill an animal.

Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.

Subletting is great. You get to try on all these different versions of yourself. This apartment was clearly decorated by an artist – there’s a great, big, huge chandelier and red fur rug, and it’s all stuff that I would never, ever, ever buy.

I have a few vintage furs and have a particular weakness for Mongolian lamb fur – it’s quite ’70s – and I like the volume fur gives.

We’re fighters. Stop worrying about showing up in a fur coat. Get out of here with that.

We’ve got eight dogs, a cat, a turtle, kids… yeah we have a lot of dogs. It’s a lot of fur, it’s a lot of poop… and that’s not even counting Robbie. He’s the hairiest most feral animal of all.

Since I was a little kid, I was against fur. I never wore fur in my life.

It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

I have a whole fur closet. I’m not afraid of PETA.

I went through this phase of Spandex, high heels, and fur coats when I was my late teens and early twenties; before then, I lived in overalls and baggy T-shirts.

I’ve never worn fur, either. I’m a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

I never wear heavy animal prints, because I feel sad for the animals. They look majestic with their striped or printed hide and fur, and when people wear the same, they look horrible and out of place.

Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It’s a billion dollar industry.

I think it’s fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.