No Animal Has To Suffer For Me

People Always Joke That 'dog' Spells 'god' Backwards. They Should Consider That It Might Be The Higher Power Coming Down To See Just How Well They Do, What Kind Of People They Are. The Animals Are Right Here, Right In Front Of Us. And How We Treat These Companions Is A Test.

I've Had People Appear In My Life That Have Helped Me. I Had More Fun. I Approached It Thinking How Would Jack Nicholson, "how Would He Do It?" So That's Really What I Did Was I Created This Gremlin Character. So Now People Come Up And They Say 'oh The Exorcist!'.. And I'm Like "did You See Repossessed?" They Say Either No Or Yes Or Whatever, And I Say Look At This, Have A Laugh, And Then Go Back And Look At A Masterpiece.

Warner Brothers Had To Hire [a Stunt Double] And No One Thought A Child Could Do This. Billy Friedkin Came To Me Before We Were Filming [the Exorcist] And Said "if You Do Not Do All Of This Film, The Film Will Be A Joke." It's Why They Stripped The Makeup Down To The Bare Minimum, A Piece On My Chin, Piece Across My Mouth That Disfigured My Mouth. You Have Scars Here. Take Away My Eyebrows. It Was My Real Hair. Shampoo Was Put In It That Dried.

I Didn't Have A Clue. I Grew Up Protestant In Connecticut At The Saugatuck Congregational Church. We Didn't Talk About The Devil. That's Catholicism. And So, That Was My Safety Net. And I Always Say, It's Probably A Good Thing They Didn't Hire A Catholic Child, Who May Have Heard About The Devil, The Things That Were In The Closet. And No One Wanted To Discuss Them.

Its Difficult To Understand Why People Don't Realize That Pets Are Gifts To Mankind