Ape Quotes

One of the guys who worked at the Ape School became my stunt double so we just kept working on different things and just play around.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

(July 2006): One mistake we always make is to ape the West. We attempt films that we think they will like. The true crossover films are `Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon` and `Life Is Beautiful` where the director goes entirely by his conviction, culture, community and conditioning. I am hoping, not just for me and my father and family, but for Indian cinema that Krrish (2006) will succeed, so we can envision an even bigger extravaganza. We want to afford that freedom to take our cinema higher. I believe we are very close now to getting noticed on a world platform.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

I don`t see any point. I`m not sort of playing him as much as I am Glenn`s interpretation of him, ... Both Joe and Allison`s personalities act as springboards for Glenn`s imagination. I don`t think we are meant to ape them, or ape their lives.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

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.

Oh, it is I, Incredibly skinny, stooped, and neat as pie, Ignorant as dirt, erotic as an ape, Dreamy as puberty - with dirty hair!

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.