Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes. '
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am. " We are ontological oxymorons.
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.
He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
It's weird. . . people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.
I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
Sure, I'd play an ape if they asked me. Maurice Evans did.
That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?