Planet of the Apes (1968) quotes
Director
Franklin J. Schaffner.
Cast
Charlton Heston.
Roddy McDowall.
Kim Hunter.
An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved.
Oh my God. I’m back. I’m home. All the time, it was… We finally really did it.
– George Taylor
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!
– George Taylor
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
– George Taylor
A planet where apes evolved from men? There’s got to be an answer.
– George Taylor
Don’t look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find.
– Dr. Zaius
The Forbidden Zone was once a paradise. Your breed made a desert of it, ages ago.
– Dr. Zaius
Tell us, why are all apes created equal?
– Honorious
Some apes, it seems, are more equal than others.
– George Taylor
You are right, I have always known about man. From the evidence, I believe his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy. His emotions must rule his brain. He must be a warlike creature who gives battle to everything around him, even himself.
– Dr. Zaius
It’s a mad house! A mad house!
– George Taylor
What will he find out there, doctor?
– Dr. Zira
His destiny.
– Dr. Zaius
I’m a seeker too. But my dreams aren’t like yours. I can’t help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.
– George Taylor
The question is not so much where we are as when we are.
– Dodge
You can’t trust the older generation.
– Lucius
A planet where apes evolved from men? There’s got to be an answer.
– George Taylor
Don’t look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find.
– Dr. Zaius
You did it. You cut up his brain, you bloody baboon!
– George Taylor
Chalk up another victory to the human spirit.
– George Taylor
You know the saying, “Human see, human do.”
– Julius
Doctor, I’d like to kiss you goodbye.
– George Taylor
All right, but you’re so damned ugly.
– Dr. Zira
Doctor, would an ape make a human doll that TALKS?
– George Taylor
You are a menace. A walking pestilence.
– Dr. Zaius
Imagine me needing someone. Back on Earth I never did. Oh, there were women. Lots of women. Lots of love-making but no love. You see, that was the kind of world we’d made. So I left, because there was no one to hold me there.
– George Taylor
Well Taylor, we’re all fugitives now.
– Cornelius
Do you have any weapons, any guns?
– George Taylor
The best, but we won’t need them.
– Cornelius
I’m glad to hear it. I want one anyway.
– George Taylor
Taylor, you are not in command here. Put down that gun!
– Cornelius
Shut up!
– George Taylor