Movie Quotes Blog

Jane Porter:
[after Clayton fires in the air] Mr. Clayton, please. What if it’s a gorilla?

Clayton:
It’s no gorilla.

---

Jane Porter:
[Tarzan has saved her from the baboons] Put me down! Put me down!

[the baboons approach]

Jane Porter:
No, pick me up, pick me up, pick me up!

---

Tantor:
Oh, Terk, I’ve never seen him so happy.

Terk:
Eh, I give it a week.

---

Kerchak:
You came back.

Tarzan:
I came home.

---

Tantor:
[Terk is dressed in Jane’s dress to lure Kerchak away] Actually, I thought that dress was rather slimming on you.

Terk:
Oh, really? I thought it was a little revealing.

---

[Jane draws Tarzan on the chalkboard]

Professor Porter:
Shall I, ahem, leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment?

---

Terk:
Can you believe that guy? Drops us like a newborn giraffe - kerplop! - then waltzes in and expects us to…

Tarzan:
Terk, I’m asking you as a friend.

[Looks at Terk with big, soulful eyes]

Terk:
Oh, with the face and the eyes… All right! All right! But you’d better not make me do anything stupid.

[Cut to Terk in Jane’s dress]

Terk:
I’m going to kill him!

---

[a gunshot breaks the jungle silence]

Tarzan:
What was that?

Tantor:
It wasn’t me, I swear.

---

Tarzan:
Kerchak, forgive me.

Kerchak:
No. Forgive me, for not understanding that you have always been one of us. Our family will look to you now.

Tarzan:
No. Kerchak.

Kerchak:
Take care of them, my son. Take care of them.

---

[Tarzan takes Clayton’s gun and aims it at him]

Clayton:
Go ahead. Shoot me.

[chuckles]

Clayton:
Be a man.

[a shot is heard, but not from the gun; it’s Tarzan mimicking a gunshot]

Tarzan:
Not a man like you!

---

[repeated line]

Clayton:
Have we met?

---

Jane Porter:
And there were gorillas.

Professor Porter, Clayton:
Gorillas?

Clayton:
You found the gorillas? Where, Jane? Where?

Jane Porter:
He left with them.

Professor Porter:
Who did? Who?

Jane Porter:
Tarzan.

Clayton:
Tarzan?

Jane Porter:
The ape man.

---

Professor Porter:
Oh, those magnificent creatures, shivering in cages. What is this world coming to?

[He hits his fist on the wall; suddenly the ship shifts to the side, from Tantor getting on board]

Professor Porter:
Oh, by Jove. Don’t know my own strength.

---

Clayton:
[Draws a crude gorilla on Jane’s chalkboard and points to it with the chalk] Gorilla.

Tarzan:
[Takes the chalk and examines it] Gor-illa.

Professor Porter:
[Excited] Oh! Oh! He’s got it!

Tarzan:
Gor-illa!

[Proceeds to scribble wildly on the chalkboard]

Tarzan:
Gorrrrr-illllla!

Professor Porter:
Oh, perhaps not…

---

Young Tantor:
[Sees Tarzan swimming] Piranha! It’s a piranha!

Tantor’s Mother:
Tantor, there are no piranhas in Africa.

Elephant #1:
Don’t tell the kid that. Of course there are piranhas in Africa.

Elephant #2:
No, she’s right. They’re native to South America.

Elephant #1:
Oh, come on, now.

Elephant #2:
You think I would be standing here if they were?

[Meanwhile, Tarzan is trying to get a hair from the first elephant’s tail]

Young Tantor:
Look out, he’s right behind you!

Tantor’s Mother:
For the last time, honey, there are no piranhas in…

Elephant #1:
My butt! Something’s got my butt!

---

Tantor:
That sounded like Tarzan. It sounded like - like he was in trouble.

Terk:
Yeah? Why doesn’t he get his new friends to help him? I don’t care.

Tantor:
That’s it! I’ve had it with you and your emotional constipation! Tarzan needs us, and we’re gonna help him! You got that?

[places Terk on his back]

Tantor:
So pipe down, and hold on tight… we’ve got a boat to catch.

[Tantor charges off a cliff and into the ocean]

Tantor:
I’ve never felt so alive!

Terk:
Good, ’cause I’m gonna kill you!

---

[Tarzan sneaks up behind her to try and scare her]

Kala:
Don’t even think about it.

Tarzan:
How’d you know it was me?

Kala:
I’m your mother. I know everything. Now, where have you been?

Tarzan:
I thought you knew everything.

---

Clayton:
Even if you hadn’t grown up a savage, you’d be lost. There are no trails through a woman’s heart.

---

Jane Porter:
Oh, Tarzan, you have no idea what’s in store for you. You’re going to see the world, and all kinds of people will want to meet you. Leaders, scientists, writers.

Professor Porter:
Yes. Darwin, and Kipling. Queen Victoria.

Jane Porter:
I haven’t met her, but I hear she’s awfuly nice.

---

Jane Porter:
I was saved! I was saved by a flying wild man in a loincloth.

---

Tarzan:
No matter where I go, you will always be my mother.

Kala:
And you will always be in my heart.

---

Kerchak:
I said he could stay. That doesn’t make him my son.

---

Clayton:
If I can teach a parrot to sing “God Save the Queen,” I can certainly teach this savage a thing or two.

---

Tantor:
[as Tarzan is leaving on the boat] Tarzan!

Terk:
We’re too late! I can’t believe it! If only you had asked for directions.

Tantor:
We didn’t even get to say goodbye.

Terk:
Well, good riddance! Who needs you? Go on, get out of here, Bald Boy! You ingrate! You bald ingrate!

[Throws a rock at the water]

Terk:
Go out and rot for all I care!

[to Tantor]

Terk:
What are you looking at?

Tantor:
I’m gonna miss him too.

---

Jane Porter:
[Describing how Tarzan walks] He bent his elbows out, and he walked like this.

Professor Porter:
Oh, I see! Just like aunt Isabel.

---

[Terk and Tarzan are wrestling]

Tantor:
Whoa! Okay. It’s all fun and games till someone loses an eye.

---

Clayton:
Hiding, are we? Good! I could use a challenge, because after hunting you, gathering up your little ape family will be all too easy!

---

Clayton:
Sorry for the rude welcome, but I couldn’t have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages.

Tarzan:
Why?

Clayton:
Why? For 300 pound sterling a head. Actually, I have you to thank, old boy. Couldn’t have done it without you.

---

Professor Porter:
Oh, Janie Jane! What an amazing discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior…

Jane Porter:
And no respect for personal boundaries.

Professor Porter:
How do you mean?

Jane Porter:
[gets extremely close to Professor Porter] He was this close to me, daddy, just staring at me.

[Goes back to blackboard and finishes drawing of Tarzan]

Jane Porter:
He was confused at first, as if he had never seen another human before. His eyes were intense… and focused, and… I’ve never seen eyes like those before.

Professor Porter:
Oh. Shall I - ahem - leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment?

Jane Porter:
Oh, daddy, stop it.

---

Kala:
Close your eyes. Now forget what you see.

Kala:
[puts Tarzan’s hand to his chest] What do you feel?

Young Tarzan:
My heart.

Kala:
[puts Tarzan’s head by her chest] Come here.

Young Tarzan:
Your heart.

Kala:
See? We’re exactly the same.

---

Tarzan:
Tarzan. Tar-zan.

Jane Porter:
Tarzan. Oh, I see!

Tarzan:
Oh, I see!

Tarzan:
[points at himself] Tarzan.

Tarzan:
[points at Jane] Oh, I see.

Jane Porter:
No, no, no. No.

Jane Porter:
[clears throat, points at herself] I’m Jane.

Tarzan:
No, no, no. No.

Tarzan:
[clears throat, points at himself] I’m Jane.

Jane Porter:
No, no.

Jane Porter:
[points at herself] Jane.

Jane Porter:
[points at Tarzan] Tarzan.

Jane Porter:
[points at herself] Jane.

Tarzan:
Jane.

Jane Porter:
Exactly.

---

Ape Boy:
Hurry up, Terk!

Mungo:
Last one there’s a dung beetle!

Terk:
Yeah, first one’s gotta eat it!

---

Professor Porter:
[after telling Jane to stay with Tarzan] What am I doing? Captain! Tell them you never found us! After all, people get lost in the jungle all the time!

[jumps out of the boat]

---

Terk:
What kind of animal are you?

Tantor:
You know, I’ve been thinking lately that Tarzan may be some sub-species of elephant.

Terk:
Are you kidding… What are you talking about?

Tantor:
I mean, think about it. He enjoys a peanut, I enjoy a peanut…

Terk:
He looks nothing like you!

---

Clayton:
Ah, yes. I remember you. I think this one would be better off stuffed.

---

Jane Porter:
[trying to coax a baby baboon to give her back a drawing] All right, enough of this. I want that paper on the count of three. One, two… Oh, look! Bananas!

[as the baboon looks away, Jane snatches the drawing away]

Jane Porter:
Ha ha! I can’t believe you fell for that one!

[the baby baboon starts crying]

Jane Porter:
Now, now, don’t give me those crocodile tears. What would your parents have to say?

[suddenly she hears a growl; turns around to face a band of angry baboons]

Jane Porter:
See? I told you they’d be cross. Go easy on him, children will be children.

---

Kerchak:
Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them see you and do not seek them out.

Tarzan:
They mean us no harm.

Kerchak:
Tarzan, I don’t know that.

Tarzan:
But I do. I have spent time with them.

Kerchak:
You may be willing to risk our safety, but I’m not.

Tarzan:
Why are you threatened by anyone different from you?

Kerchak:
Protect this family and stay away from them.

[Tarzan sulks away]

Kala:
Tarzan, for once listen to Kerchak.

Tarzan:
Why didn’t you tell me there were creatures who look like me?

---

[after being returned to her camp by Tarzan]

Jane Porter:
Daddy, they took my boot!

---

Tantor:
What’s everybody lookin’ at?

Tantor:
[sees the camp] Ooh! The horror! It’s gruesome! Hide me!

Terk:
Pull yourself together. You’re embarrasing me. These things aren’t alive.

Tantor:
I knew that.

---

Professor Porter:
Looks like a man but walks like an ape. He could be the missing link!

Clayton:
Or our link to the gorillas.

---