Lassie Quotes

• He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.

  Cole Porter

  Sister, Hair, May

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.

  Edith Head

  Dog, Stars, Animal

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• 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.

  Will Estes

  Movie, Dog, Kids

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• I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, 'It made me want to be a farmer.

  June Lockhart

  Years, Want, Six

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• I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

  Jean Dujardin

  Smile, Dog, Mustache

  "Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.

  John F. Kennedy

  Needs, Persons, Seems

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• Guess we're going north," Dev said slowly. "Everyone, follow Lassie.Timmy's in the well.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Said, Wells

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “No Mercy”, p.245, Macmillan

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• The difference between "trained OK" and "trained perfectly" doesn't really matter all that much to me. I once did a film with Lassie. When that dog got excited he jumped all over Rudd Weatherwax [Lassie's trainer]. Now that's the smartest dog in the world. If the world's best-trained dog can jump around to show he's happy then my dogs should be allowed to do the same.

  James Stewart

  Dog, Differences, World

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• Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Boys, Hollywood

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• The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?

  Marjorie Garber

  Loyalty, Dog, Book

  Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone

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• 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

  Dog, Training, Personal Question

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• TALLAHASSEE LASSIE was a record I wrote with my mom. A number of other famous groups have also recorded it such as Led Zeppelin (I understand they are currently touring) and several other English bands and also some various "Punk Bands".

  Freddy Cannon

  Mom, Numbers, Groups

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• I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

  Will Estes

  Dog, Animal, Alaska

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• Every Thursday or something, my mother would shoot it at NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center. And sometimes she would have me there when Morris The Cat was on, and Lassie was on.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Cat, Nbc

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

  George A. Romero

  Animal, Watches, Old Yeller

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• 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

  Dog, Week

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• 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

  Dog, Brother, Rights

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• Sasha snorted. "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your brain and got lost. you need a bread crumb, buddy?" He made a noise like he was calling his pet. "Here Lassie, here. Come back girl.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Long, Pet

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• She's my Tallahassee lassie down in FLA.

  Freddy Cannon

  Misinterpretation

  Song: Tallahassee Lassie

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• To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned.... They may just have something there.... If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can't use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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