34 Quotes by Tommy Rettig

Next night I got the call to fly home. That was it. It played a week and closed. That was my only starring role in a feature motion picture.

But anyway aside from alcohol and nicotine, LSD was the first drug l ever took.

We sued the producers of the show for four years in a row. One year they put out a Lassie doll with my picture on it and paid me no royalties.

I was just starting to get heavily into girls and cars and cigarettes and booze, and I wanted to have a normal chance to have fun.

We lasted on the show for four years.

The Beatles had already been out for a few years, hair was growing longer and marijuana started to show up at parties and so on.

I just wanted to have a chance at the real world. Then I found out through working a series of straight jobs that straight jobs suck!

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.

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