Tommy Rettig Quotes
"Once in a while there was some TV offer and I'd take it."
- Tommy Rettig
"So, in the last year, the whole cast sued for release from our contracts."
- Tommy Rettig
"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Kids)
"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
(Related: Business, Mother, Artists, Guitar, Play, Publishing, Songs, Writing)
"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Day, Difference)
"Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Friend, Man)
"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
(Related: Death, Mom, First, Hell, Nixon, Now, Republican)
"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
(Related: Beach, Boys, Party, School)
"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Drugs, Friends)
"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
(Related: Life, Acceptance, Rejection)
"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Years)
"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Thought, Actor)
"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Childhood, Relationships)
"I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun."
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Fun, School)
"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
(Related: Thought, Addiction, Friends, Help, Smoking, World)
"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"
- Tommy Rettig
(Related: Life, Thought, Man)
"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
(Related: Education, Government, Time, Lie, Drugs, Press)