Professor Porter Quotes in Tarzan (1999)

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Professor Porter Quotes:

  • Professor Porter: Oh, Janie Jane! What an amazing discovery! A man with no language, no human behavior...

    Jane Porter: And no respect for personal boundaries.

    Professor Porter: How do you mean?

    Jane Porter: [gets extremely close to Professor Porter] He was this close to me, daddy, just staring at me.

    [Goes back to blackboard and finishes drawing of Tarzan]

    Jane Porter: He was confused at first, as if he had never seen another human before. His eyes were intense... and focused, and... I've never seen eyes like those before.

    Professor Porter: Oh. Shall I - ahem - leave you and the blackboard alone for a moment?

    Jane Porter: Oh, daddy, stop it.

  • Professor Porter: Oh, those magnificent creatures, shivering in cages. What is this world coming to?

    [He hits his fist on the wall; suddenly the ship shifts to the side, from Tantor getting on board]

    Professor Porter: Oh, by Jove. Don't know my own strength.

  • [after being returned to camp by Tarzan]

    Jane Porter: Oh, my goodness! Daddy, I was walking. There was... was a little baby, little baby monkey, and I drew a picture!

    Professor Porter: Yes, go on.

    Jane Porter: Suddenly, the monkey starts crying.

    Professor Porter: Oh, poor thing.

    Jane Porter: But, I turn around and there's a whole FLEET OF THEM. An ARMY of monkeys! A huge tree full of monkeys, screaming at me!

    [imitates a monkey screaming at him]

    Professor Porter: [laughing at her] That's theropithecus baboonus! She's very good at this!

    Jane Porter: Terrified! I was terrified! Suddenly, I was swinging, on a vine, in the air! Swinging, in the air!

    Professor Porter: With the monkeys!

    Jane Porter: I was in the air! And then, I was all surrounded!

    Professor Porter: What did you do?

    Jane Porter: And, Daddy! They took my boot!

    Professor Porter: Your boot - those are the ones I bought you.

    Jane Porter: And I was SAVED. I was saved by a flying, wild man in a loincloth.

    Professor Porter: Loincloth? Good Lord.

    Clayton: What is she talking about?

    Professor Porter: I haven't the foggiest idea. Takes after her mother, you know. She came up with stories like that. Not about men in loincloths, of course.

  • Clayton: [Draws a crude gorilla on Jane's chalkboard and points to it with the chalk] Gorilla.

    Tarzan: [Takes the chalk and examines it] Gor-illa.

    Professor Porter: [Excited] Oh! Oh! He's got it!

    Tarzan: Gor-illa!

    [Proceeds to scribble wildly on the chalkboard]

    Tarzan: Gorrrrr-illllla!

    Professor Porter: Oh, perhaps not...

  • Professor Porter: Looks like a man but walks like an ape. He could be the missing link!

    Clayton: Or our link to the gorillas.

  • Professor Porter: [after telling Jane to stay with Tarzan] What am I doing? Captain! Tell them you never found us! After all, people get lost in the jungle all the time!

    [jumps out of the boat]

  • Jane Porter: [Describing how Tarzan walks] He bent his elbows out, and he walked like this.

    Professor Porter: Oh, I see! Just like Aunt Isabel.

  • Jane Porter: And there were gorillas.

    Professor PorterClayton: Gorillas?

    Clayton: You found the gorillas? Where, Jane? Where?

    Jane Porter: He left with them.

    Professor Porter: Who did? Who?

    Jane Porter: Tarzan.

    Clayton: Tarzan?

    Jane Porter: The ape man.

  • Jane Porter: Oh, Tarzan, you have no idea what's in store for you. You're going to see the world, and all kinds of people will want to meet you. Leaders, scientists, writers.

    Professor Porter: Yes, Darwin and Kipling. Queen Victoria!

    Jane Porter: I haven't met her, but I hear she's awfully nice.

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