The process of acting is no different [playing human or ape]. You're embodying the character. You're creating the psychology and the physicality.… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful. — Ofir Drori Copy Share Image
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God,… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more;… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's… — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Perfection is the natural consequence of eternity: wait long enough, and anything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls,… — Ian Caldwell Copy Share Image
I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at… — Eugene Dubois Copy Share Image
And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and,… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
It's that we're experiencing emotion through photo-real apes, and that's really holding a mirror up to who we are. It's interesting, because… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
It is not important at all that we were all once an ape! The important thing is that how very much we… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
“P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.” — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
When I first was offered the role on Rise [of the Planet of the Apes], I always played Caesar as a human… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back… — Joe Elliott Copy Share Image
“Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes.” — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image