Memorable quotes for
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) More at IMDbPro »

Dr. Zira: [to Dr. Dixon] You're the second human I have kissed.
Cornelius: [to Dr. Branton] And you are the first.

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Dr. Lewis Dixon: Can you read a map?
Cornelius: I'm an archaeologist. I can even draw one!

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Tailor: May I measure your inside leg, sir?
Cornelius: No.

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Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: [testing Lewis's assertion that the apes can speak] What is your name?
Dr. Zira: Zira.
Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: One might as well be talking to a parrot.
Dr. Zira: A parrot?
Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: What did I tell you? Mechanical mimicry. Unique in an ape, vocally, without a doubt, but... does the other one talk?
Cornelius: Only when she lets me.

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Dr. Zira: Because I loathe bananas!

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Curator: [in the museum, Zira sees a giant stuffed gorilla and faints] It must have been the shock!
Dr. Zira: [reviving] Shock, my foot... I'm pregnant!

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Reporter: Dr. Hasslein, as the President's Senior Science Advisor, what do you expect to experience from this historic meeting?
Dr. Otto Hasslein: Fear.

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Dr. Otto Hasslein: Negative, negative, negative!
E-1: Don't worry. We'll catch them, sooner or later.
Dr. Otto Hasslein: That's what I'm worried about. Later. Later we'll do something about pollution. Later we'll do something about the population explosion. Later we'll do something about the nuclear war. We think we've got all the time in the world, but how much time has the world got? Somebody has to begin to care.

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Armando: You're asking me to risk imprisonment for the sake of two fugitive apes? The answer is: a thousand times, yes.

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Cornelius: By the time the plague was contained, man was without pets. Of course, for man this was intolerable. I mean, he might kill his brother, but he could not kill his dog!

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Cornelius: If we are caught, we will almost certainly be killed. Please give us the opportunity... to kill ourselves?
Dr. Lewis Dixon: I shouldn't do this, but I guessed you'd ask.
[Dr. Dixon hands Cornelius a gun]

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Dr. Zira: A marriage bed is made for two. But every damn morning, it's the woman who has to make it. We have heads as well as hands. I call upon men to let us use them!

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Dr. Otto Hasslein: Zira, wine is an excellent restorative, I assure you, especially in cases of pregnancy.

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