Edward Norton credited as playing...
Rex
- Rex: I used to sleep on a lamb's wool beanbag next to an electric space heater. That's my territory, I'm an *indoor* dog.
- King: I starred in twenty-two consecutive Doggy Chow commercials. Look at me now, I couldn't land an audition.
- Boss: I was the lead mascot for an undefeated high school baseball team.
- [sneezes]
- Boss: I lost all my spirit, I'm depressing.
- Duke: I only ask for what I've always had, a balanced diet, regular grooming, and a general physical once a year.
- Rex: I think I might give up.
- Duke: What, right now?
- Rex: Right now.
- [turns around]
- Rex: There's no future on Trash Island.
- Duke: [sneezes, then turns to Boss and King] You heard the rumor, right? About Buster?
- [All the four dogs murmur]
- Boss: Who's Buster?
- Duke: Uh, my brother from another litter.
- King: What happened to him?
- Duke: Suicide. Hanged himself by his own leash.
- Boss: Aw, boy...
- Rex: I want my master.
- Chief: [scoffs in disgust] You make me sick.
- [vomits off to the side and walks up to the four dogs]
- Chief: I've seen cats with more balls than you dogs.
- [shouts at Duke]
- Chief: STOP LICKING YOUR WOUNDS!
- [Duke looks around awkwardly with his tongue out. Chief walks up to Boss]
- Chief: You hungry? Kill something and eat it.
- [walks up to Duke]
- Chief: You sick? Take a long nap.
- [walks up to King]
- Chief: You cold? Dig a hole in the ground, crawl into it, and bury yourself.
- [walks up to Rex]
- Chief: But nobody's giving up around here, and don't you forget it, ever. You're Rex. You're King. You're Duke! You're Boss! I'm Chief. We're a pack of scary indestructible alpha dogs. You're talking like a bunch of housebroken... pets.
- Rex: You don't understand. Uh, how could you, I mean you're a...
- Chief: Go ahead say it. I'm a stray, yeah.
- [Two packs of feral dogs growling at each other over a garbage bag potentially containing food]
- Rex: Wait a second. Before we attack each other and tear ourselves to shreds like a pack of maniacs, let's just open the sack first and see what's actually in it. It might not even be worth the trouble.
- Igor: Alright.
- Rex: A rancid apple core, two worm-eaten banana peels, a moldy rice cake, a dried-up pickle, tin of sardine bones, a pile of broken egg-shells, an old smushed-up rotten gizzard with maggots all over it...
- Chief: Okay, it's worth it.
- [All dogs proceed to fight]
- Chief: Rex! King! Duke! Boss! You made it!
- Rex: What happened to you?
- Chief: I took a bath.
- Rex: What, he's got soap?
- Chief: Just a little.
- Rex: You're too fluffy.
- Chief: We played fetch.
- Rex: With a stick?
- Chief: With a hunk of rubber radiator tubing.
- Rex: And you brought it back to him?
- Chief: Yeah. He's a good boy.
- Rex: Don't you tell me that! I was the one that tried to make you be loyal to him in the first place!
- Chief: Stop, *stop*! This is the rendevous! Where's that trash-tram taking you?
- Rex: You think we booked this flight through a travel agent? We were fighting for our lives in a high-velocity trash-processor while you were getting scrubbed and brushed!
- Chief: Jump!
- Rex: Where?
- Chief: Here!
- Rex: When?
- Chief: Now!
- Rex: Why?
- Chief: *What*?
- Rex: [from trailer] To the North; a long rickety causeway over a noxious sludge marsh, leading to a radioactive landfill polluted by toxic chemical garbage. That's our destination. Get ready to jump.