Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Kenan Thompson, Paul Rodriguez, Tony Hale, Russell Peters, Rosie Perez, John Cleese, David Alan Grier

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

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Live-action animation comedy directed by Walt Becker. Clifford The Big Red Dog (2021) follows middle schooler Emily Elizabeth (Darby Camp), who discovers a small red puppy that is destined to become her best friend from a magical animal rescuer. When Clifford becomes a gigantic red dog in her small apartment and attracts the attention of a genetics company who wish to supersize animals, Emily and her clueless Uncle Casey (Jack Whitehall) have to fight the forces of greed as they go on the run across New York City. Along the way, Clifford affects the lives of everyone around him and teaches Emily and her uncle the true meaning of acceptance and unconditional love.

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'People who are unique, they're the ones that change the world.' - Maggie (Clifford The Big Red Dog) Click To Tweet

Best Quotes

Bridwell: This is a story that takes place on an island full of wonder. The story of two lost souls searching for one another, although they don’t know that yet. Because, you see, no matter how alone, or out of place one feels, magic is all around us, if you just know where to look.

Maggie: How was your day, sweetheart?
Emily: Somewhere between abysmal and atrocious.
Maggie: Those are two beautiful words, which you probably wouldn’t use if you didn’t go to such a good school.
Emily: Great. I’ll have an epic vocabulary to use in my upcoming decades of therapy.

Maggie: [moviequotesandmore.com] You know, people who are unique, they’re the ones that change the world.
Emily: Great. I’ll tell Florence that.
Maggie: Just let me call her mother. We can have them over here, and we can all talk about it.
Emily: My gosh, were you ever a child?
Maggie: No.

Maggie: You know, you just have to learn to stand up for yourself.
Emily: Well, I guess I’m just not as brave as you. I don’t want to stand out.

Emily: Well, who’s going to stay with me?
Maggie: I’ll get a lovely sitter. Yeah?
Emily: Just not Uncle Casey.
Maggie: Are you kidding? Uncle Casey? Who thinks that green M&M’s are vegetables?

Alonso: Two years ago, genius here cuts his hand off with a meat slicer. Now he’s a tofu-eating vegan.
Raul: It was a sign.

Bridwell: [to Clifford] Now, just because you’re lost, it doesn’t mean that you’re any less of a treasure. You understand?
Bridwell: [as Clifford barks] Oh, standing up for yourself, are you?

Maggie: Emily has to be at school by 7:45.
Casey: In the morning? What are they, farmers?

Casey: [moviequotesandmore.com] So, what are we doing? “Get a little crew together? Hit up the club?” Isn’t that what you young people say?
Emily: We don’t say that. Ever.
Casey: “Get lit?”
Emily: Please stop.

Casey: Where’s your sense of humor?
Emily: I lost it. On the subway.
Casey: I lost you one time. Okay, twice if you count Atlantic City. But I won you back!

Casey: Hey, you want to get a coffee?
Emily: I’m twelve. I’m not allowed to drink coffee.
Casey: Red Bull?
Emily: Really?
Casey: Being a kid sucks.

Emily: Oh, my gosh. Look, there’s an animal rescue tent! Can we go in? Please?
Casey: My instinct is, “Sure.” So we probably shouldn’t? But how could I say no to that little face with those cheeks, and the missing tooth? I just want to dust you in sugar.

Emily: Uncle Casey, there’s a sloth!
Casey: Oh. Hey. My spirit animal.

Bridwell: [moviequotesandmore.com] Bridwell’s the name, and welcome to my Tentus Animalus Rescuus.
Emily: Is that Latin for “Animal Rescue Tent”?
Bridwell: No, it’s just regular words with “us” on the end. Makes me sound smartus.

Bridwell: The thing about animals is that the best time to find them is when you’re not looking for them.

Emily: Is that a baby giraffe?
Bridwell: Or a long-necked hyena. I can’t be sure till I tell it a joke. Giraffes have no sense of humor.

Emily: [upon seeing Clifford] My goodness. You’re just the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. Look at you. Aw. I got you. Oh, he’s so cute. And so tiny.
Casey: And so red.
Emily: I love that he’s red.

Emily: Mr. Bridwell, how big is he going to get?
Bridwell: Well, that depends, doesn’t it?
Emily: On what?
Bridwell: On how much you love him.

Casey: [moviequotesandmore.com] I’m sorry. I’m new, responsible Casey now, and letting you get a little radioactive micro-dog is not responsible.

Casey: Well, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to crush my niece’s dreams. I always wondered what it felt like to be the bad guy.
Bridwell: My pleasure.

Owen: I think it’s awesome that you actually did the work. Really makes you stand out around here.
Emily: It was one of the last things I was hoping to do, but thank you.

Owen: Well, if it makes you feel any better, I collected cans too.
Emily: Really? Where are they?
Owen: My dad threw them away. Said I looked like an Asian Oliver Twist.

Emily: [referring to Clifford] I swear, he just showed up.
Casey: Oh, it just “showed up”, huh?
Emily: What is that? What are you doing?
Casey: Air quotes. It’s a thing that grown-ups do when they say something that they don’t mean.

Casey: [moviequotesandmore.com] I’m not going to fall for your little girl powers. Oh! Okay, one night. And then, first thing in the morning, he is going back to that weird old man that we met in the animal tent. Saying that out loud makes us going in there seem like such a poor choice.

Emily: [to Clifford] I wish you were big and strong, and the world couldn’t hurt us.

Emily: Oh, my gosh, I’m not dreaming. This is real. Clifford, it’s really you. How did this happen? How are you so huge? I mean, it’s crazy, but it’s great. I did wish for you to be big, but I didn’t mean big on the outside. I meant like mentally big.

Casey: Run! Come on. We got to get out of here! There’s a monster in the apartment!
Emily: Casey, this is the dog.
Casey: Uncles and children first!

Emily: [moviequotesandmore.com] I think something happened to him.
Casey: You think?
Emily: He’s the same dog he was last night, he’s just a little bit bigger.
Casey: “A little bit bigger.” It is the size of a hippopotamus.

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Emily: [to Casey] Somehow I thought you’d be better in a crisis.

Casey: He doesn’t even show up on Google. Bridwell’s Animal Rescue, nothing! You can’t give people pets that go nuclear, and then not be on the Internet. That is so irresponsible. Even by my standards.

Packard: I smell dog.
Casey: Dog? No. That is just me. I don’t believe in deodorant. Why mask our natural essence? In fact, we should smell each other. Bring it in.

Casey: This is the craziest thing I have ever seen, and I’ve been to Burning Man.

Emily: [referring to Clifford] We can’t abandon him. We’re all he’s got. We just need to make him small again.

Casey: Nice job with the belts. Lucky your mom went through the Madonna phase in the ’80s, huh?
Emily: Madonna?

Emily: [referring to Clifford] Shouldn’t we try to hide him or something?
Casey: No. It’s New York. No one will even notice.

Casey: [referring to his truck] Look, this is a valid, financially responsible life choice, which your mother does not need to know about. Okay?
Casey: [as Clifford whines] Oh, you’re judging me as well.

Emily: Clifford, don’t slobber on his financially responsible life choice.

Emily: Owen. What are you doing here?
Owen: I thought you were sick, so I was going to bring you your homework. And I also skipped PE. Which I’m suddenly realizing makes me look a lot more desperate than I anticipated.

Casey: [as Clifford pees and some splashes on him] Oh, I hope I’m not around for number two.

Vet: Yes, they’re large teeth on a big red dog.
Casey: Is that a medical opinion? It sounded very scientific.

Vet: So, why don’t we get you on the scale here, bud? But slowly!
[as Clifford gets on the scale it breaks]
Vet: It’s just the platinum edition of the X-9000.
Emily: Yeah, sorry about that.
Vet: No problem. I’m just going to write “heavy”.

Vet: Yeah, why don’t you take his temperature?
Casey: What? Why?
Vet: You know him a little better.
Casey: Where?
Vet: You know.
Casey: No, I don’t “know”, because I’m not a vet.
Vet: Well, in the animal temperature taking place?
Casey: Which is?
Vet: Rhymes with “nut-hole”.

Emily: So you don’t know what made him grow like this?
Vet: I’m sorry, I don’t. Live near a toxic waste dump? On top of a burial ground? Because I saw this movie this one time…
Casey: Okay, I think we’re done here.

Casey: [referring to Bridwell] How do we find him?
Lucille: You don’t. He’s more of the there-when-you-need-him type of guy. You know?
Owen: What do you do, say his name three times and rub a lamp?

Owen: I’ll lift the intel, stealth mode. They’ll never even know we were here.
Casey: That would’ve sounded so much cooler if you weren’t holding a SpongeBob flash drive.

Casey: Oh, it is my specialty. Screwing stuff up for your mom. I bet you didn’t know your mom got a scholarship to Oxford.
Emily: She did?
Casey: Yeah. Wanted to go back to England for college. And then our mom died, dad went to pieces. So she stayed here to help raise me. She sacrificed everything. This is how I repay her. “Surprise! You’re homeless.” That’s why no one ever believes in me, Em.

Owen: What are you doing?
Emily: I’m getting Clifford out of here.
Owen: You know how to drive?
Emily: If Casey can do it, how hard can it be?

Owen: This is both unsafe and illegal! That’s two firsts for me.

Owen: This truck doesn’t have airbags. Please keep that in mind while we’re crashing.

Casey: [to Emily] Are you insane? You’re driving now?
Owen: What are you upset about? I still can’t get my butt cheeks to unclench!

Emily: [referring to Maggie calling] I don’t know what to say!
Casey: I’d go with anything but the truth.

Petra: He eats like an animal.
Emily: Well, he is an animal.
Petra: [points to Casey] I’m talking about him.
Casey: What?

Emily: Clifford came to me when I was alone, and had no friends. He’s the best part of my life. I’m not going to abandon him.
Casey: We don’t have a choice. We’ve been evicted. And now, according to the news, we’re like actual fugitives.

Emily: Casey, what if you found someone who was so full of love they made you feel like you could do anything? How would you feel if you had to let that go?

Owen: Clifford, you sense things. Do you sense any chemistry between me and Emily? Because I sense…
Owen: [as Clifford farts] Ew! Clifford, gross! This is what killed the dinosaurs! There are rules! You can’t let one rip in confined space!

Emily: I’m not going to give him up!
Casey: We’ve got to do what’s best for him.
Emily: I’m what’s best for him.
Casey: Not if you can’t keep him safe.

Emily: I know you don’t understand, Clifford. It’s just, it’s not safe for you here. You’re just too big. And if they find you, they’ll do really bad things to you. I can’t let that happen. There are no other dogs like you. And people, they just, they don’t like things that are different.

Casey: What’s the matter? What’s he doing?
Emily: I think he’s trying to be small. I’m sorry I let you down, Clifford. I thought I could save you, and I couldn’t. We have to be big and strong. Remember? So that the world can’t hurt us.

Emily: You know who’s not going to be happy? My mom. Living in a van.
Casey: No. I think she’ll get used to the van life. Sleeping on the floor. Peeing in a bucket.

Emily: I’m grounded for life, aren’t I?
Casey: You and me both.

Casey: And finally, to my ninth-grade math teacher, Mr. Beamus, who told me that I would never amount to anything, I would like to point out that only one of us is on TV right now. So, Mr. Beamus, you can kiss my…

Emily: Mr. Bridwell, you have to make Clifford small again, or they’re going to hurt him.
Bridwell: Small? But it was your love that made him so big. Nobody can take that away.
Emily: But will he be okay?
Bridwell: Your love is all he needs.

Emily: My name is Emily Elizabeth, and this is my dog, Clifford. I know he’s bigger than most dogs, but he’s also the kindest, most loving dog in the whole wide world.

Emily: He’s not dangerous! He’s just different. That’s all. I know how he feels, because I know what it’s like to not fit in. Just because you’re different, it doesn’t mean that it’s okay to be teased, or bullied. And I’m going to guess that many of you know how much that hurts.

Emily: Someone once told me it’s the people who are unique, they’re the ones who change the world. If Clifford was just a regular dog, we wouldn’t all be here. We’ve got to stand up for him!

Emily: He doesn’t hurt anyone. He just, he loves. And if we can love each other like this, none of us would have to feel small and all alone again. Right, Clifford? It’s not right to take him away just because he’s big and red. So, please. Please let me keep my dog.

Bridwell: [after Emily gets to keep Clifford] Isn’t technology amazing? People say it’s quite like magic. So, if you’ll excuse me, I have some other people I need to help. After all, you’re not the only person in the world who isn’t looking for a pet.

Casey: You saved him, just like you said you would.
Emily: Well, I couldn’t have done it without my mature and super-dependable uncle.
Casey: You have another uncle?

Emily: You know how you said no one believes in you? I believe in you. You just need to believe in yourself.
Casey: [hugs her] How do you know so much stuff for a fourth grader?
Emily: Sixth.
Casey: I was doing air quotes behind your back.

Bridwell: And so the pure, simple love between a girl and her dog changed everything. Emily and her mother were welcomed home. And Packard even acquired a uniquely helpful assistant. Other people matured. And by “other people”, I mean Uncle Casey, who finally
moved out of his van, and got a proper job. And so, a story that began with two lost souls ends with one big family. A little girl, a giant red dog, and a city that came together because of them.

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