Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

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

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.

The important thing to remember is that bugs don't actually talk.

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

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Dogs do have feelings, I gather.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

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.

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

I have to have animals. They really make life worth living, and my world actually revolves around them. They know exactly when it's time to get up, exactly when they're supposed to get their food, and they let you know. Mine are right there in my face, first thing every morning.

Sheep are never going to talk to you about cricket.

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.

My saddle horses are my friends. My dogs are my friends.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

I love animals and I love working with them because they don't lie.

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

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