Movie Quotes About Dogs

“I was haunted by trainers going "Up, up, up, get up." You find yourself picking your head up and then realizing, They aren't talking to me.”
Jeff Daniels, on the shooting of 101 Dalmatians

“It don't care whether I'm good enough. It don't care whether I snore or not. It don't care which God I pray to. There are only three things with that kind of unconditional acceptance: Dogs, doughnuts, and money.”
Lawrenece Garfield (Danny DeVito), Other People's Money

“And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is —
but, then, he's the one who paid for it.”
Julia Glass

“If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.”
Jim Henson

“By the end of the '50s, everything began to collapse and, little by little, I lost all of my work. I lost Rex, the Wonder Dog, and all the westerns.”
Gil Kane

“She is such a scene-stealer. She's got these lashes and big eyes,
and when she walks on to the set everybody just says "ooh."
Greg Kinnear, about Jill, the dog who played Verdell in As Good As It Gets

“Mutts are often better to work with. Sometimes, some of the breed dogs get hyper and have lots of health problems. Mutts are just great!”
Betty Linn, animal trainer

“There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.”
Tommy Rettig

“We each had to spend a week out at Lassie's ranch, and whoever got along best with the dog got the part.”
Tommy Rettig