Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Tommy Rettig

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Thomas Noel Rettig was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. He is remembered for portraying the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs with the title Jeff's Collie. He also co-starred with another former child actor, Tony Dow, in the mid-1960s television teen soap opera Never Too Young and recorded the song by that title with the group, The TR-4.

American - Actor | December 10, 1941 - February 15, 1996

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The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.

Tommy Rettig

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

Tommy Rettig

So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts.

Tommy Rettig

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

Tommy Rettig

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

Tommy Rettig

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

Tommy Rettig

I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun.

Tommy Rettig

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.

Tommy Rettig

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

Tommy Rettig

Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

Tommy Rettig

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

Tommy Rettig

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

Tommy Rettig

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Tommy Rettig

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.

Tommy Rettig

Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it.

Tommy Rettig

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education.

Tommy Rettig

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.

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