I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
My dream pet? I like a couple of them, man: monkey, I love dogs. See, tigers, I don't know - I can't be playing with something like that. A monkey, I can handle it. A dog, yeah; I would get a monkey.
The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.
a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I was walking in the park and I saw a dog barking at a bird.
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
I don't think that the world would be a better place if everyone owned a dog, and I don't think that all relationships between dogs and their owners are good, healthy, or enriching.
Smee: [backstage] I just want you to know, I think you're a wonderful dog. Nana The Dog: Thanks.
Andrew Largeman: [a dog humps his leg] "He's got to be close to finishing now" Sam: [Dog speeds up his humping] "Not yet, here comes the lipstick"
Louie: For the past four years, he's done, maybe, twelve perfect contracts. Perfect, Like a ghost.
Sonny Valerio: Now is the time to tell us everything you know about this mysterious ghostlike untraceable fuckin' button man.
Station Inspector: [to his dog while in the bath] If he is deceased, then who has been winding the clocks? [cut to reveal that the Inspector and the dog are in the bath together]
Ronnie - 11 years: Where did Grandpa find Hachi? Cate Wilson: Ronnie, actually, Hachi found your grandfather.
Dog: What the fuck is that? Mickey: It's me bren gun. Dog: Couldn't you have thought of something more practical?
Patton: [to his dog, named after William the Conqueror, after it is panicked by a much smaller dog] Your name isn't William, it's Willy!
Mr. Blonde: I might break you in, Nice Guy, but I'd make you my dog's bitch.
