Christopher Walken Quotes

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Animals in general have sparked a weird depression in me, because as much as I tried, I couldn't layer a personality over them. You know what I mean? I would stare at the cows, and I would sing to the cows, and they would always just look at me blankly.

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I have come to know Bugs so well that I no longer have to think about what he is doing in any situation.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.

I don't find monkeys inherently funny.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

Cats can't understand English, so you tell a cat, 'Come on. Jump on the bed,' and he just looks at you like, 'What are you talking about?'

I would like to visit a dog's mind to know what he's thinking and feeling.

Many expressions of a cat's feelings seem deeply related to the capture of live prey.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.