Tarzan Quotes
44 quotes by 33 authors
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it…
— Carol Burnett
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What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane?
— John Welborn
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Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.
— Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn
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Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
— Johnny Weissmuller
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In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees
— Casper Van Dien
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As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote
— Casper Van Dien
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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals…
— Miriam Makeba
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For the black man to come out superior would be against America's teachings. I have been so great in boxing they had to create an…
— Muhammad Ali
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When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan.
— Maureen O'Sullivan
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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…
— Maureen O'Sullivan
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The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was…
— Johnny Weissmuller
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I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my…
— Esther Williams
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How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was…
— Johnny Weissmuller
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I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a…
— Jean Dujardin
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design…
— Ralph Bakshi
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Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard
— George Carlin
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My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and…
— Henry Louis Gates
Who Wrote These Tarzan Quotes
33 authors contributed a total of 44 Tarzan Quotes, led by these top contributors: