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Dog Gone (2023) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Rob Lowe, John Berchtold, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Nick Peine, Susan Gallagher, Al Mitchell, Rachael Thompson, Michael H. Cole

OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆

Story:

Netflix drama directed by Stephen Herek. Based on a true story, Dog Gone (2023) centers on father and son, John and Fielding Marshall (Rob Lowe and John Berchtold), who repair their fractured relationship during a forced hike on the Appalachian trail to find their beloved lost dog named Gonker.

 

Our Favorite Quotes:

'It's nice to have one soul on earth who thinks you're fine just the way you are. Even if you are a little bit different, or don't have a job, or direction, or momentum. Just one soul who loves you because you are you.' (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

Best Quotes


 

Fielding Marshall: I feel so alone.
Nate: Yeah. “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” Mother Teresa, who, by the way, I guarantee you was never dumped. I mean, seriously, you dump her, that is one-way ticket downstairs.


 

Nate: A B-minus in Native American studies does not qualify you to care for an animal. It just doesn’t. And also, please don’t ever do that again.
Fielding Marshall: Why?
Nate: It’s very off-putting when you quote smart dead guys back at me. That’s my thing. Philosophical arts, my thing. You know it.


 

Fielding Marshall: [after they get Gonker from the animal shelter] Oh, and I need him to imprint on me, so don’t like bond with him.
Nate: Done and done.


 

Nate: [as Gonker is peeing on him] This is the worst thing that has ever happened.
Fielding Marshall: He likes you.
Nate: Why is there so much?


 

Nate: What is a gonker?
Fielding Marshall: He’s a Gonker.


 

Fielding Marshall: What are you guys doing here?
John Marshall: Well, I think my investment entitles me to see you in a robe and a funny hat.


 

Fielding Marshall: He’s not a mistake. He’s my best friend.
John Marshall: You can’t even take care of yourself, let alone another living being.
Fielding Marshall: Okay. I take care of Gonker just fine.
Ginny Marshall: So why’s he drinking out of a beer bong?


 

Fielding Marshall: Dad, I’m not equipped to handle medical supplies sales.
John Marshall: Then what are you going to do when, in twenty-four hours, this whole party ends? Other than be back at home with Mom and Dad, exactly where you were four years ago.

 

'Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.' - Nate (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

John Marshall: [after Fielding misses his graduation] Well, I’m sure it’s worth the six-hour round trip just to see four thousand strangers all dressed in the same outfit.


 

Nate: How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard?
Fielding Marshall: Oh, Gandhi.
Nate: Winnie the Pooh, man.


 

Fielding Marshall: Oh, hey. I’m sorry. Did I wake you?
John Marshall: I think you woke your Aunt Jenny. And she’s been dead for nine years.


 

John Marshall: [referring to Gonker] I’m on a Zoom call with five people. He’s just sitting here whining.
Fielding Marshall: He wants to play fetch.
John Marshall: [as he tosses a stick] Alright. Go get it.
Fielding Marshall: He needs to choose the stick.
John Marshall: He needs to choose it?


 

John Marshall: [as Ginny stuffs her face in the pillow] When you’re done, please smother me to death as well.

 

'What is man without the beasts? For if all the beasts were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.' - Fielding Marshall (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

Ginny Marshall: [to Gonker] You’re not a wild beast. You’re a sweetheart, aren’t you?


 

John Marshall: Gonker? Worst-named dog in the world.


 

John Marshall: [after Gonker’s been diagnosed with Addison’s disease] This is what we were saying. Having a dog is a responsibility. When you care for someone, it can’t just be sometimes, or playtime. It has to be all the time.


 

John Marshall: [referring to Fielding] There he is. The stinky foul beast, and he brought his dog.

 

'Just because I'm trying to find my way, it doesn't mean I'm lost.' - Fielding Marshall (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

Ginny Marshall: [to Fielding] You never eat.
John Marshall: He’s preparing for a life of poverty.


 

Nate: My class isn’t boring, and the last question that I asked on the test was, “Is atheism a religion?” I know. It’s like, how do you answer that? You can’t. It’s not a thing. So, I just gave everybody an A and watched The Office.


 

Fielding Marshall: You know, the thought of you teaching undergrads, it’s kind of terrifying.
Nate: I know, right?


 

Fielding Marshall: See fox, chase fox. Why can’t my life be as simple as Gonker’s?
Nate: I know, right?


 

Fielding Marshall: It’s hard to find a career when you’re not good at anything.

 

'If you live in a bubble, eventually you suffocate.' - John Marshall (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

Fielding Marshall: The Appalachian Trail. He went after a fox and he never came back. And Nate and I, we were looking everywhere for him. He’s somewhere out there right now.
Ginny Marshall: There are coyotes out there. They’re going to eat him alive.
John Marshall: Okay. That’s not going to be helpful.


 

John Marshall: [to Fielding] Your mom’s going to hold down the command center here, but you and I are hitting the Appalachian Trail. So if we focus, we work hard, and make calculated, deliberate decisions, and I promise you, we will find that dog.


 

Ginny Marshall: You promise? How can you say that?
John Marshall: Because I believe it.


 

Fielding Marshall: Thanks for doing this.
John Marshall: We haven’t accomplished anything yet. Caesar never thanked his generals until they delivered a victory.
Fielding Marshall: I’m not Caesar.
John Marshall: No, you’re not. But you’re trying to solve this situation. That’s a start.

 

'Some people know exactly what they want. And others don't. At the end of the day, we're all just walking the trail. It's just some of us want to wait a bit longer before we step off. That's all.' - Hippie (Dog Gone) Click To Tweet

 

Fielding Marshall: You’re embarrassed of me.
John Marshall: Don’t be ridiculous.
Fielding Marshall: Am I being ridiculous? Because what’s the opposite of embarrassment? It’s pride.


 

Fielding Marshall: [to John] I guess we’re just two different people.


 

Fielding Marshall: [to John] I know that you think that I’m irresponsible, and immature, and, you know, Gonker’s going to die because of me.

 

'I can't take pride in your clothes. I can't take pride in living in a cabin, or any of those kind of things, because they're just that, they're things. That's not what fathers take pride in. I take pride in your character.' Click To Tweet

 

Fielding Marshall: When all of your friends, and your mom, and your dad, and their friends, when everyone looks at you like you’re a loser, it’s nice to have one soul on earth who thinks you’re fine just the way you are. Even if you are a little bit different, or don’t have a job, or direction, or momentum. Just one soul who loves you because you are you. That’s who Gonker was for me, Dad. Gonker was the only one on the entire planet who liked me just the way I am.


 

John Marshall: Son, you’re worried about Gonker because you love him and he’s lost. That’s why I worry about you.
Fielding Marshall: You just did it again. Just because I’m trying to find my way, or whatever, it doesn’t mean I’m lost.

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Fielding Marshall: [referring to the bikers] They just don’t look like the type of people you approach about this kind of thing.
John Marshall: Son, if you live in a bubble, eventually you suffocate.


 

Biker President: [after he approaches the bikers] His name is Gonkers?
John Marshall: Gonker. Singular. It’s one dog.
Biker President: Gon-ker. That’s a stupid name. I gave my dog a stupid name once. Macaroni. He was five when he got out of the yard. Never came back. I still dream about him.


 

Fielding Marshall: [referring to Gonkers getting lost] It’s my fault.
Biker President: You need to forgive yourself. I beat myself up for years on account of Macaroni. It does you no good. And it does no good for Gonkers either.


 

Fielding Marshall: [referring to the motel] No, they said, “No dogs.”
John Marshall: Yeah. Little laws are for little men.


 

John Marshall: Ancient trading caravans on the Silk Road would stop at campgrounds on their way to the Orient. You know what they called those?
Fielding Marshall: Holiday Inns that don’t allow dogs?
John Marshall: Caravansaries. Not only were there camels allowed inside, the guards would welcome them and protect them. We are a caravansary. So they are required to welcome our camp.


 

John Marshall: [as they’re trying to sneak Yuri into the motel] Put the coat around me.
Fielding Marshall: What is this, Scooby-Doo?


 

Fielding Marshall: I am not paying the fine.
John Marshall: Of course not. You’d need money for that.


 

Ginny Marshall: Hey, you guys be careful at this Claude fella’s. He might be some kind of serial killer.
John Marshall: Yeah, you’re absolutely right. That’s why I’m going to send Fielding to the front door.


 

John Marshall: [to Fielding] It’s like we say, Gonker isn’t any dog. As hard as you’re searching for him, he’s searching for you.


 

Ginny Marshall: I can’t keep up with all the calls. People are reaching out from all over the world with tips on how to track him, how to lure him out of the woods, how to help him find your scent.
John Marshall: Well, I don’t think they’re going to need help with that.
Fielding Marshall: Meaning?
John Marshall: You’re working on kind of a patchouli musk.
Fielding Marshall: Have you smelled your cologne?
Ginny Marshall: Sounds like you two are getting along.
Fielding Marshall: Oh, no. It’s Stockholm syndrome.


 

John Marshall: [referring to the campers] Hey. We should definitely check in with those guys.
Fielding Marshall: Yeah, I have flyers, and I can recite the story in my sleep, so. Are you coming?
John Marshall: I thought I’d let you handle it. Look like your kind of people.
Fielding Marshall: If you live in a bubble, you eventually suffocate.
John Marshall: Now he listens to me.


 

Hippie #1: You’re like full of dad knowledge.
John Marshall: I don’t know about that. But if you talk to my son, he’ll tell you I’m full of something.


 

Hippie #1: [referring to Fielding] Going out on the open road, searching for his best friend. He’s got a real loving energy that’s hard to come by.


 

Hippie #2: It’s like you two are on like an epic journey together.
Hippie #1: Like a quest.
Hippie #2: An epic quest.
John Marshall: A vision quest, like the movie. Matthew Modine, Madonna, singing in a Pennsylvania Appalachian bar? No?


 

John Marshall: That’s what dads do, we worry.


 

Hippie #1: Mr. Marshall, we were all born in 2000. The first humans of the new millennium. With technological advances, the odds are greater we’ll live past one hundred than die before forty. So what’s the difference if on our deathbed, we had fifty-four years in the workforce or fifty-three? If we die with a little less money to leave our kids, but a lot more life experience, and knowledge to pass on?


 

Hippie #1: Some people know exactly what they want. And others don’t, like me and my friends. At the end of the day, we’re all just walking the trail. It’s just some of us want to wait a bit longer before we step off. That’s all.
John Marshall: You know, I think my son’s been trying to tell me his version of that like half a dozen times. I don’t know why I didn’t hear it until now.
Hippie #1: Because I’m not your son.


 

John Marshall: [to Fielding] Take this in the spirit with which it’s intended, but you look like a bag of crap.


 

John Marshall: I don’t think I’ve seen a room like this since Russell Crowe was doing math problems.


 

Ginny Marshall: It’s just that it’s happening all over again. I promised myself that I would never care about another dog again, and then here I am. Heartbroken again.


 

John Marshall: We’re going to find this dog.
Ginny Marshall: You keep saying that.
John Marshall: I know. Because I believe it.


 

John Marshall: The kid is skin and bones. He hasn’t eaten. He’s not sleeping. It’s dark. He’s tired. I just hope he didn’t hurt himself. I’ve been up and down this trail. He’s over two hours late.
Ginny Marshall: You should have called me sooner!
John Marshall: Well, I didn’t want to worry you.
Ginny Marshall: Oh, yeah? How’s that working out for you? We’ve already lost a dog in these damn woods. And now our son too?


 

John Marshall: [to Fielding] I can’t take pride in your clothes. Okay? I can’t take pride in living in a cabin, or any of those kind of things, because they’re just that, they’re things. That’s not what fathers take pride in. I take pride in your character. The character that embraces being kind to everyone. It’s fun. It’s funny. Loving. The kind of character that rescues a puppy from a shelter and gives it a home. The kind of character that would walk all night on bloody feet before it would give up on someone it loves. So, you’re asking me if I’m proud of you. I have always been proud of you. I wouldn’t know how not to be.


 

John Marshall: Fielding’s my compass now. Wherever he says we go, we go.


 

John Marshall: Don’t give up hope.
Fielding Marshall: It’s getting hard not to.


 

Fielding Marshall: [after they find Nate on the trail looking for Gonker] I never once, for a second, ever thought to blame you. Like ever.
Nate: Wish I would have known that, because these crows have been kicking my a**.


 

John Marshall: Did they not feed you at the psych department, Nate?
Nate: It’s more of a food for the soul kind of group, you know? I’m thinking about just selling out and going to Wall Street.
Fielding Marshall: Wow! Yeah? What about becoming a “philosophical artist”?
Nate: “I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave, and it awards me for being innovative, and thinking outside the box.” Henry Rollins. And he was a philosophical artist.


 

Nate: Maybe I’ll just become an organic farmer or something. I don’t know. Weighing both options.
John Marshall: You’re strange, Nate. And I love it.


 

Townie #1: Doesn’t concern you, Pops.
John Marshall: Yeah, well, that’s where you’re wrong. See, this is my son. And that is his friend. So it is my biological edict to protect them.


 

John Marshall: [to the Townie thug] Here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to take my thumb and jam it so far into your eye socket it could pop it out like a cork. So now it’s your turn to think. Is it worth the risk? Because if it’s not, then you better back off.


 

Nate: [referring to John] He’s Dwayne Johnson in Dockers.


 

Fielding Marshall: We can’t give up. He’s going to die out there.
Ginny Marshall: Honey, odds are he’s already gone.
Fielding Marshall: Don’t say that.


 

Ginny Marshall: It’s over, baby.
Fielding Marshall: He was the best friend I ever had.
Ginny Marshall: I know. I know exactly how you feel.


 

John Marshall: I don’t know. You really think he could have made it here in his condition? One hundred and eleven miles?
Fielding Marshall: Gonker isn’t any dog.


 

John Marshall: We will find that dog.
Fielding Marshall: Why won’t you stop saying that?
John Marshall: Because I believe it.
[Fielding then turns to see Gonkers appearing from the bushes]


 

Dr. Elgozby: [after Fielding is diagnosed with ulcerative colitis] From what I saw in surgery, he spent weeks in acute pain and distress. Any reason why he would have waited so long to come seek medical care?
John Marshall: It’s going to sound crazy. His dog was lost, and he wanted to keep looking.


 

Fielding Marshall: [looking at photos of Gonker] He looks sad.
John Marshall: Because he’s wondering where his buddy went.


 

John Marshall: [as he’s trying to sneak Gonker into the hospital] Yuri was much better at this than you are. Stick your head inside the jacket. Inside the jacket.
Ginny Marshall: We’re going to get in so much trouble.


 

Fielding Marshall: Hey, what are you guys doing here?
John Marshall: We brought you a sleep aid.
Fielding Marshall: Gonker?

 


 

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