Cory Monteith Quotes

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have.

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.

I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.

I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.

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

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

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats are very sexy I think too in the way they move.

I want to reconnect to my animal life.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human's eyes.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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.

What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

Dogs are a window on the natural world.

I love animals. I just don't want to have a pet. That's OK, right? I would take a dog over a cat, at least to interact with you. I feel like cats just stare you down all the time. Cats have, like, bad attitudes.

One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

I treat my cat like she's my therapist or something, because I talk to her all the time, and as she's gotten older, she talks back. It's pretty funny.