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Nature & Animals Quote by Antonio Banderas

"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"

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Banderas is doing something sly here: using the low-stakes, everybody-has-an-opinion topic of pets to smuggle in a theory of desire. The cat that "may not come" isn’t just an animal; it’s a miniature lesson in autonomy. Dogs validate you on demand. Cats make you earn it, or at least make you feel like you did. That friction, the slight refusal, is where the erotic charge lives.

Calling cats "very sexy" is deliberately disarming because it risks sounding ridiculous. That’s the point. He’s an actor, a professional reader of bodies, and he’s translating physical charisma into everyday language: movement as meaning. "In the way they move" is basically a layperson’s version of screen presence. A cat doesn’t hustle to please; it glides. It carries itself like it expects the world to adjust. That’s the kind of confidence cinema has always tried to bottle.

The subtext is also a quiet pushback against the culture of instant responsiveness. In an era when attention is a currency and compliance can be demanded with a notification, the cat becomes a fantasy of unbothered self-possession. You can want it; you can invite it. You can’t summon it like a service.

Banderas isn’t making a zoological claim so much as sketching two relationship models: loyalty as reliability versus allure as unpredictability. He’s telling you what kind of energy he finds magnetic, then making it sound like he’s just talking about pets.

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Banderas, Antonio. (2026, January 16). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-call-a-cat-he-may-not-come-which-doesnt-120245/

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Banderas, Antonio. "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." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-call-a-cat-he-may-not-come-which-doesnt-120245/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-call-a-cat-he-may-not-come-which-doesnt-120245/. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.

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Antonio Banderas

Antonio Banderas (born August 10, 1960) is a Actor from Spain.

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