Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

Richard Harris: James Parker

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Quotes 

• [It's night. We hear Tarzan yelling] 

  Parker : Oh, shut up, you boring son of a bitch!

• Parker : It was fear that first brought gods into the world.

• Harry Holt : Jane, do you know what he wants? What this ape wants?

  Jane : He's not an ape!

  Harry Holt : He is an ape. He lives like an ape, he kills like an ape. But do you understand what he wants?

  Jane : You know everything...

  Harry Holt : Well, this ape son of a bitch wants you.

  Parker : I'm gonna catch that animal son of a bitch, Mr Holt!

• Parker : I wallow in me. I enjoy every syllable I say and every gesture I make. I indulge myself a full one hundred percent. And you take my advice, dear Jane, and you do the same thing, and enjoy your beautiful time on Earth. Turn yourself into a god, and then you will not have to look for another.

• Parker : You don't find me a very pretty sight, do you?

  Jane : I don't find you a pretty sight.

• Parker : I loved her too much. So frail. So very - fragile. God, how I loved you.

  Jane : Her. You loved her.

  Parker : Yes. Her. But you are her.

  Jane : I am not.

• Parker : How much do you hate me?

  Jane : I think, so very, very much.

  Parker : Hate is a very strong emotion. It can drain one.

  Jane : I know.

• Parker : Open your eyes. Lift them up. Now!

  Jane : Oh, my God!

  Parker : I told you - I told you it was a god damn big rock.

  Jane : Oh, my God!

• Jane : What was it?

  Parker : I told you. I believe it's Tarzan.

  Jane : But, I don't know what Tarzan is?

  Harry Holt : It's a great white ape. It's supposedly ten feet tall.

  Parker : A great white man, supposedly one hundred feet tall!

  Harry Holt : Well, it's a story. It's half man, half ape. Gigantic. White.

• Parker : Of course he's afraid! He's got to be afraid! That's where the bloody fun is! You are afraid, aren't you Holt? You are afraid, Holt, aren't you? You are afraid. Yes, you are afraid and you are alive. Your blood is rushing through your veins. Your heart is pounding off your chest! - with the thought of going up there. And you're more alive at this moment than you have ever been in your entire life! Because you are afraid. Yes, Holt, because you are afraid.

• Parker : Fear is intoxicating! Fear of the dark. Fear of death. Fear of the unknown. Fear of a five hundred foot white monster.

• Jane : All your faith is based on this?

  Parker : This and the seat of my pants.

• Parker : Ape or Man, I'm still going to stuff him and hang him on the wall of my Club.

• Parker : Damn. Damn. Bloody damn!

• Parker : Jane. Jane! Answer me, Jane!

  Jane : Yeah! They're washing me just like a whore! Oh, no!

  Parker : Jane, leave here! Let's just, leave here! Go to the - go to the clouds, Jane! Yes, go to the clouds!

• Jane : They're painting me.

  Parker : Jane.

  Jane : They're painting my hair.

  Parker : Jane.

  Jane : They're painting it white.

  Parker : Jane! Jane, listen to me. Jane, do you like merry-go-rounds?

  Jane : Merry-go-rounds?

  Parker : Yes. We will take a ride on one. You and I together. We'll bring Mr. Holt with us. Mr. Holt, you will take a ride with us on a merry-go-round. We'll go round and round the heavens of the Greek gods! Jane, I see - Aphrodite. And she's not half as beautiful as you are! Who do you see Jane?

  Jane : Who do I see? Oh, God, who do I see? Who do I see? I see Zeus.

  Parker : Ah, Zeus.

  Jane : No, I only see them smearing me with paint!

• Jane : Oh, God, tell me a story. Be a good daddy, tell me a story and make him go away.

  Parker : Yes, I will, Jane. I'll tell you a story. A story. A story. Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall! Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! All the king's horses and all the kings men. Could not put this bloody Humpty Dumpty together again!

• Jane : Oh, my God, he's coming!

  Parker : Now, Jane, listen to me. And listen to me well! For once, what I am going to tell you is the absolute truth! If he touches you, he is not touching *you*! You are not of the flesh. You are of the spirit! That is why you must leave your body - right now! You must leave him with nothing!