Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is… — Janusz Korwin-Mikke Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
“She shot him a warm smile as she stopped the car and shut off the engine. “It’s all the Planet of the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“It's us, you know, it's us who can't handle that kind of love. We're apes. Literally. We don't know shit about unconditional… — Madeline Ashby Copy Share Image
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics… — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of… — James Lee Copy Share Image
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe.… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“...but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds...… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f09/andy-serkis-1548_apes_rather-than-something-like-king-kong-whe_234956.jpg)
![“As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor…” quote by Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/090/vladimir-nabokov-198_animal_as-far-as-i-can-recall-the-initial-shive_715401.jpg)
![“I think the fun thing about this franchise [Planet of Apes], as storytellers, is that a lot of the franchises are very black and white. This is all about the gray areas; it's really about the nature.” quote by Matt Reeves](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6ff/matt-reeves-19952_apes_i-think-the-fun-thing-about-this-franchi_2938026.jpg)
![“The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.” quote by Andy Serkis](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e8f/andy-serkis-1548_actors_the-matter-is-we-are-actors-playing-role_2446384.jpg)
