“Many people made fun of me, with my animals, you know?.. If I come home from a hard day at the studio, what I come home to are my deer, or my chimps, and I can hug them and they don’t ask you anything, they don’t complain, you know, they don’t gossip, they just want a hug and some love and they get on with it. You know, ‘Where’s the pizza? Get up, put back the ice cream’, ‘cause the chimps, they love snacks. And, you know, they run around, they help me clean the room (šimpanza vjerovatno

) and they help me fix up things, you know, and they’re very – their DNA is literally identical to ours if you look in the microscope. And they’re amazing. […] Yeah, yeah, they help me clean my room, they help me dust, they’re doing windows, they flush the toilet after they use the bathroom, and (…) Bubbles would go by himself. And he’d sit at the table and he picks up the spoon and his fork and he eats, he’s very polite, and they’re very intelligent.” Jedno jutro je čak zatekao šimpanzu u kupatilu kako se češlja.
"We spoke of deer hunting — a common sport in the United Kingdom. Michael’s eyes teared slightly and he probed me with his questioning gaze: ´I don’t understand how someone could shoot something that helpless?"
Michael and his deer Prince and Princess. He helped to deliver their doe on Valentine's day and named it Valentino.