It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.
I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks.
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
Man is an ape with possibilities.
I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up. . . not using. . . . I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human being within ape skin.
Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail. ]
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much. . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting". . . But that's not all people laugh at. " Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart. . . a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there. " He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people.