Ari Quotes in Planet of the Apes (2001)

Ari: You know one day they'll tell a story about a human who came from the stars and changed our world. Some will say it was just a fairy tale, but, it was never real. But I'll know.

Ari: Stop it! Who told you, you could throw stones at humans?

Gorilla kid: My father

Ari: Did he ?He's wrong very wrong. You can tell him for me I said so.

Gorilla kid: Human lover!

[to Leo in regarding Earth]

Ari: I'd like to see your world.

Captain Leo Davidson: I know. But they'd probably pry you and poke you and throw you in a cage too.

Ari: [smiles] You'd protect me.

[Leo smiles]

[Leo notices the human mark on Ari's hand]

Ari: I can't go home either now. So, maybe we're not so different.

Captain Leo Davidson: No, we're very different.

[Ari looks at him sadly]

Captain Leo Davidson: You care about everybody, but yourself.

Captain Leo Davidson: Our apes couldn't talk.

Ari: Maybe they chose not to... given the way you treated them.

Ari: [blocking Limbo] You kill him, and you'll only lower yourself to his level.

Limbo: Exactly!

Ari: Hm, I knew it, you're sensitive. An uncommon quality in a man.

Krull: [groans]

Tival: Apes are afraid of water. They can't swim.

Ari: We drown!

Daena: That is why every day we pray for rain.

Ari: It's disgusting the way we treat humans.

[Royal motions to Pagoda]

Royal: He saved my life, you know. Thirty years ago. I was knifed at a bazaar in Calcutta, and he carried me to the hospital on his back.

Ari: Who stabbed you?

[Royal motions to Pagoda again]

Royal: He did. There was a price on my head, and he was a hired assassin. Stuck me in the gut with a shiv.

[last lines]

[the family is gathered at the cemetery]

Narrator: Among the few possessions he left to his heirs was a set of Encyclopedia Britannica in storage at the Lindbergh Palace Hotel under the names Ari and Uzi Tenenbaum. No-one spoke at the funeral, and Father Petersen's leg had not yet mended, but it was agreed among them that Royal would have found the event to be most satisfactory.

[Chas, now wearing a blac Adidas tracksuit, nods to his sons]

Ari: Fire!

[Ari and Uzi, also in black Adidas tracksuits, fire their air rifles into the air]

Ari: Fire!

[they fire again]

Ari: Were you in prison?

Royal: Kinda. Minimum security. I got jacked by the IRS. Shall we split?

Ari: Yes, sir.

Royal: No, call me Mr. Tennenbaum.

Ari: OK.

Royal: Oh, I'm kidding. Call me Pappy.

Uzi Tenenbaum: Who's your father?

Chas: His name is Royal Tenenbaum.

Ari: You told us he was already dead.

Chas: Yeah, well, now he's really dying.

Ari: [about Margot's severed finger] Did you try to sew it back on?

Margot: Wasn't worth it.

Ari: Would you like...

Sam: To fuck?

Ari: No, a drink.

Ari: Think pure thoughts.

Sam: I'm not wearing any undies.

Ari: [Working in a darkroom, Ari mistakes developer fluid for wine] Liam! This is the worst piss you've ever bought! Next time spend the extra dime and get something with grapes!

Ari: When I was in like, 5th grade, the miniseries "Roots" was this big thing. So, our teacher had us make family trees. I consulted my mom, and my grandmother, but we couldn't trace it back any further than New York, which was embarrassing. So, I lied and said that we were descended from Russian Tsars. Which is possible if any of them married poorly. Now Liam on the other hand, if there's a good Monty Python rerun on, or if he's had enough Guinness, will confess to a lineage of pirates. Dashing, hearty, seafaring men, known for their rich appetites and poor showings on college placement exams. Supposedly, he claims, they started out with the best of intentions. Rebellion against a tyrannical crown. But then conditions changed, and they lost track. They became desperados. Seduced, driven mad by a combination of lust and endless, chickless months at sea. They raped, they pillaged, they took things that were not theirs. See, that's the literal definition of piracy today. Record pirates, video pirates, love pirates. Maybe that's why Sam and I broke up. Maybe it was just sex. Maybe it was something we let our careers get away with. But no matter what, if we didn't have a hold on it, if it wasn't truly ours, then we had no right fucking with it. Yeah, we had a lot in common with Liam's pirates, Sam and I. The lust... the abandon... the tendency to just burn everything in sight. I don't think I'll ever fall in love again.

[last lines]

Ari: I'm a whore, a dog, and a cunt. My father's insults make me strong. I accept them all. I'm sliding toward the sewer. I'm not struggling. I can smell the shit but I'm still breathing. I'm gonna live my life. I'm not gonna make a difference. I'm not gonna change a thing. No one's gonna remember me when I'm dead. I'm a sailor and a whore, and I will be until the end of the world.

Ari: I'm a man. And I take it up the ass.

[first lines]

Ari: They tell you that God is dead but, man, they still want you to have a purpose. They say look at your parents: hard-working migrants, work two jobs, struggle all your life, buy your kids a house... there, that's purpose. They tell you to be a doctor, a teacher, be creative, do something, believe in something, believe in family and the future, save the world, believe in love, but, fuck it, I'm no scholar, I'm no worker, I'm no poet.

Ari: I'm not gonna tell you what to do.

Alex: Good.

Ari: Does this mean I get my vibrator back?

Sean: How come you Greeks always bullshit your parents? You know, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Voulis, I know it's midnight but Peter's still studying at the library."

Ari: You HAVE to lie.

Sean: Why?

Ari: Because if you tell everyone the truth, they use it against you.

Ari: I'm a man. I don't take it up the ass.

Daisy: Do you smoke?

Ari: Uh... no.

Daisy: Me neither really, just when I don't have a steady boyfriend, oral fixation you know?

Ari: My motto is you should make a point of trying everything once, except incest... and folkdancing.

Alice: I'm in the midst of doing my thesis.

Ari: What on?

Alice: Doris Day as feminist warrior.

Ari: I used to think love is the delusion that one woman differs from the other, but maybe that was the delusion.