Tarzan Quotes in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

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Tarzan Quotes:

  • Jane Parker: Thank you for protecting me.

    Tarzan: Me?

    Jane Parker: I said, thank you for protecting me.

    Tarzan: [points at Jane] Me?

    Jane Parker: No. I'm only "Me" for me.

    Tarzan: [points at Jane] Me.

    Jane Parker: No. To you, I'm "You."

    Tarzan: [points at himself] You.

    Jane Parker: No...

    [Thinks for a second]

    Jane Parker: I'm Jane Parker. Understand? Jane, Jane.

    Tarzan: [points at Jane] Jane, Jane.

    Jane Parker: Yes, Jane. And you?

    [Tarzan stares]

    Jane Parker: [points at herself] Jane.

    Tarzan: Jane.

    Jane Parker: [points at Tarzan] And you?

    Tarzan: Tarzan. Tarzan.

    Jane Parker: Tarzan...

  • [Tarzan has mischievously pulled Jane into a lake]

    Jane Parker: That wasn't a bit charming! You're just like a nasty little boy!

    Tarzan: Boy?

    Jane Parker: Yes!

    [Tarzan playfully dunks her under the water]

    Jane Parker: Oh Tarzan! Please let me go!

    Tarzan: Go?

    Jane Parker: Yes! Go!

    [Tarzan dunks her under the water again]

    Tarzan: Go?

    Jane Parker: Yes! No! Oh Tarzan! Let me go! Tarzan, don't!

    Tarzan: Don't?

    Jane Parker: Don't!

    [Tarzan dunks her under the water again]

    Jane Parker: I didn't say dunk! I said, don't!

    Tarzan: Don't!

    Jane Parker: Tarzan, don't!

    [pats his cheek]

    Jane Parker: Nice, Tarzan. Nice, Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Jane?

  • Jane Parker: What color are your eyes? Yes, I know, the color of the forest. Gray-green. I wonder what you'd look like dressed. Pretty good! You'd be a great success in London. And I believe you'd love it.

    Tarzan: Love it?

    Jane Parker: Or would you? Women are such fools. They'd spoil you.

    Tarzan: Boy!

    Jane Parker: I don't think you'd better look at me like that. You're awfully attractive. I love saying things to a man who can't understand. You don't even know what kisses are.

    Tarzan: Love it!

    Jane Parker: I dare say you would.

  • Jane Parker: Where are my boots?

    [Tarzan is sitting on them so she can't leave]

    Jane Parker: [tries to push him off] I do wish you wouldn't be so playful! Give me those boots! Tarzan, please give me those boots!

    [Tarzan abruptly grabs her foot, making her fall]

    Jane Parker: Tarzan, let go! Let go of my foot! That hurt me!

    Tarzan: Hurt me? Hurt me?

    Jane Parker: Oh, don't be so funny. Now, let go!

    [Tarzan inspects her foot]

    Jane Parker: Alright. When you're quite finished, I'll put my boots on.

    [Tarzan brushes the sole of her foot, causing her to squirm]

    Jane Parker: Tarzan, you're tickling! Stop!

    Tarzan: Love it?

    Jane Parker: No such thing.

    Tarzan: [Tarzan lets go of her foot and touches her face with the palm of his hand] Jane.

    Jane Parker: [Jane touches his face with the palm of her hand] You can't get around me like that.

    [Tarzan grabs her hand and compares it to his own]

    Jane Parker: Yes, there's quite a difference, isn't there? You like that difference? You've never seen anyone like me before, have you?

  • Jane Parker: Tarzan, what am I doing here, alone with you? Perhaps I better not think too much about that. Just to be here, be happy, and I am happy. Not a bit afraid. Not a bit sorry. Oh, Tarzan, I wish I could make you understand. Perhaps I can, gradually. Come here.

    [Puts her arms around Tarzan]

    Jane Parker: What are we going to do about us?

    Tarzan: Us?

    Jane Parker: You and I?

    Tarzan: You and I.

    Jane Parker: [laughs] Darling, you got that right.

    Tarzan: [recites all of the words that he has learned] Tarzan. Jane. Hurt me. Boy. Love it. Jane.

    Jane Parker: Darling, that's quite a sentence.

  • [Tarzan awakens Jane by blowing lightly in her face]

    Jane Parker: Tarzan, you're a bad boy.

    Tarzan: Good morning, I love you.

    Jane Parker: Good morning, I love you. You never forget, do you, Tarzan?

    Tarzan: Never forget... I love you.

    Jane Parker: Love who?

    Tarzan: Love you.

    Jane Parker: [shakes her head] M-mm! Love who?

    Tarzan: Love Jane.

    Jane Parker: Love... my...

    Tarzan: My... wife. My wife!

    Jane Parker: Oh, Tarzan!

    [She giggles as he nibbles her neck]

    Jane Parker: Go on now, lazy bones. Go and get my fruit juice. Go on.

    [Tarzan reaches over and hands her her cup]

    Jane Parker: Ooo, you've been out shopping early, huh? Or did you spend the night at the club? Now, you can't get around me like that. Are you sure there isn't another woman?

    Tarzan: [points at Jane] Woman.

    [points to himself]

    Tarzan: Man.

    Jane Parker: That's the way it should be, Tarzan.

    [They kiss]

    Tarzan: I love you. Happy.

  • [last lines]

    Tarzan: [points to wrist] Always gone.

    Jane Parker: No dear, always is just beginning, for you and me.

  • Jane Parker: [ties a pocket watch around Tarzan's wrist] This was my father's. I want you to wear it... always.

    Tarzan: Always.

  • Tarzan: [Awakens Jane by blowing lightly in her face] 'Morning. I love you.

    Jane Parker: Good morning. I love you.

    Tarzan: [Holds up wrist with the pocket watch] Always.

    Jane Parker: Yes, darling. Always.

  • [the Twentyman's and Frank argue in the car, Tarzan stops it by firing his shotgun through the ceiling]

    Tarzan: Next one who says a bloody word, I'll blow his bloody brains out. Right.

    Mal Twentyman: [Deafened] What!

  • Tarzan: Two people are dead here. Is this a joke to you?

    Angie: We all die sooner or later. It's not a joke, but it's nothing to cry about.

  • Col. Sangre: The service is about to start. Will you stay?

    Tarzan: No, I need no sermon to tell me how I feel about Dr. Quarles.

  • Angie: [after watching a lion kill its prey] How cruel.

    Tarzan: He killed for food. Only man kills for its own sake.

  • Tarzan: I would have killed Slade a long time ago if not for man's law.

  • Tarzan: Death is never a pretty sight. We'll see it again before the hunt is over.

  • Eric: We'll lose a lot of money if Jane doesn't help us.

    Tarzan: Money?

    Rita: Yes, money - you know, to get clothes and food and ...

    Tarzan: Food, clothes, money?

    Eric: No, Tarzan, you don't understand. Money isn't that, it's ...

    Jane: Of course he doesn't understand. I hope he never does!

  • Tarzan: [sees that Jane has been crying] Jane no happy?

    Jane: How shall I tell you, darling? I love Tarzan. Tarzan is Jane's love. Like the stars over the night. Like the air to breathe. Tarzan makes me alive. But Eric and Rita are my friends. Friends. Like rain at the end of the summer. Like the wind moving the tops of the jungle. I'm yours. You are mine. But I must help Rita. She's my friend. Friend. As Tarzan is Cheeta's friend to help her when she was in the trap.

    Tarzan: Trap?

    Jane: Yes, trap.

    Tarzan: Leguna?

    Jane: No darling, not a real trap. Just as strong. Just as horrible.

    Tarzan: Jane want go?

    Jane: Don't you remember how you went when Timba was in the pit the tribes had dug?

    Tarzan: Jane want go?

    Jane: Tarzan, believe me. When the moon has made safari three times - three times - and when she comes out of the river, big and round, and looks in on us here, she'll find us as we are now. Together. And my safari will be over forever. And I will never go away again.

  • Tarzan: Nazi hyena dead now.

  • Boy: [reading Jane's letter] I must tell you, the world is at war again.

    Tarzan: Why men have to kill each other?

    Boy: [reading Jane's letter] Once more, the Germans - Nazis, they call them now - are on the prowl. More ruthless than the most savage beast of the jungle.

    [to Tarzan]

    Boy: I bet you could kill those Nazis, Tarzan. Just like you killed Bowgat, the gorilla.

    Tarzan: No. Tarzan kill Bowgat to save Jane and Boy. Why Tarzan kill Nazis? No more war talk! When Jane come home?

    Boy: She said she can't come home until her mother's entirely recovered. It may be weeks. It's her duty, Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Tarzan know. Read more.

    Boy: [reading Jane's letter] Goodbye, my own darlings. I long for you so very, very much. More than words can say. All my love always, Jane.

    [hands Tarzan the letter]

    Boy: That's all, Tarzan. It's lonesome without her.

    Tarzan: Lonesome. Boy sleep now! Think of Jane. Be there in dreams.

    [looks at Jane's letter]

    Tarzan: All my love. Always. Jane.

  • Tarzan: [watching Zandra sleep] She still sleeps. Good.

    Boy: Isn't she beautiful?

    Tarzan: Boy sleep now!

  • Zandra: But you do not understand, Tarzan. The Nazis are your enemies, too. One hurt Boy, tried to shoot Cheeta.

    Tarzan: He dead now.

    Zandra: But the others!

    Tarzan: Others leave Boy and Tarzan alone, Tarzan leave them alone.

    Zandra: But they won't. And as long as they are here, Boy will never be safe.

    Tarzan: Tarzan stay, protect Boy like Jane say.

    Boy: Ah, Tarzan! You don't need to worry about me. I want you to go with Zandra and fight those Nazis!

    Tarzan: No!

    Boy: But Zandra saved my life!

    Tarzan: Tarzan save Zandra's life. Pay back. Tarzan swim now!

    [leaves]

    Boy: Don't worry, Zandra. He'll change his mind about helping you. Sure he will! Sometimes he's like that with Jane. But she knows how to get her way!

  • [Zandra arrives at the river Tarzan is swimming, wearing Jane's clothes]

    Tarzan: Jane!

    Boy: [hidden, to Zandra] Smile! Wave to him!

    Tarzan: Zandra! Zandra swim?

    Boy: Go on! Swim with him!

  • Zandra: Oh, this is like paradise.

    Tarzan: [takes Zandra's hand] Tarzan glad Zandra like.

    Zandra: Pallandria was such a paradise, too. Before they came.

    [Annoyed, Tarzan pulls away and leaves]

    Boy: It's working! It just takes time. Can you cook?

    Zandra: Yes.

    Boy: C'mon!

  • Boy: Zandra cooked dinner for you!

    Tarzan: Looks good.

    [eats]

    Boy: How is it?

    Tarzan: Tastes good.

    Zandra: I'm glad you like my cooking.

    [Tarzan nods approvingly and Zandra and Boy wink at each other]

    Zandra: Would you like some more?

    Tarzan: More!

    [Zandra leaves to get more food]

    Boy: I'll bet Zandra will come over and cook for us often. After you've driven those Nazis away.

    Tarzan: [stops eating] So!

    Zandra: [re-enters] What's the matter?

    Tarzan: Zandra try to bribe Tarzan! No!

  • Tarzan: Zandra! Why Zandra leave now?

    Zandra: My place is in Pallandria!

    Tarzan: Zandra stay here!

    Zandra: No Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Tarzan say yes!

    Zandra: I must return to help my people!

    Tarzan: Come back till Nazis go away!

    Zandra: They will never go away! I must go!

    Tarzan: Zandra very stubborn! Tarzan know best. Come, please.

  • Tarzan: [murmuring in his sleep] Come here, Boy! Boy!

    Zandra: Tarzan.

    Tarzan: [awakens] Zandra. Tarzan dream.

    Zandra: You had a terrible fall, and I gave you the jungle medicine to make you sleep. Just as you gave it to me.

    Tarzan: Now Tarzan remember! Nazis! Where Boy?

    Zandra: They took him away, Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Took away? Boy?

    [grabs knife]

    Tarzan: Now Tarzan make war!

  • Jane: What's the matter?

    Tarzan: People!

  • Jane: [to baby Boy] Now see that you turn on the charm, because I don't think Tarzan approves of strange young men.

    [Tarzan has built a rocking cradle]

    Jane: Oh Tarzan, how clever!

    [to baby Boy]

    Jane: Now say 'Thank you, Father! Thank you, Father!'

    Tarzan: Tarzan!

    Jane: [places baby Boy in the cradle] Isn't he adorable? Um Tarzan, would you watch him for a minute?

    Tarzan: [confused] Watch?

    Jane: Yes, I have something to do in the kitchen. Would you hold his bottle and see he doesn't choke?

    Tarzan: Him no choke!

    [Tarzan gives baby Boy his bottle. Boy grabs onto Tarzan's finger]

    Tarzan: Jane! Jane!

    Jane: What is it, Tarzan?

    [walks to the cradle]

    Jane: Oh look, he knows you already! He's laughing at you.

    Tarzan: Baby hold!

    Jane: That's right! Hold him, baby!

    Tarzan: Baby strong!

    Jane: Tarzan, he's been with us more than a week now. We've got to find him a name.

    Tarzan: Name?

    Jane: Yes, like Tarzan, Jane, Cheeta. Baby's got to have a name, too. If the Zambilis hadn't taken those men out of the plane, we might have found a clue to his real name.

    Tarzan: Baby strong. Call Elephant!

    Jane: [laughs] Elephant? With a little nose like that?

    Tarzan: Later call Elephant. Now call Boy!

    Jane: Oh, but that's not a name.

    Tarzan: Boy!

    Jane: Well, after all, I am his mother.

    Tarzan: Tarzan father! Call boy!

    Jane: [picks up baby Boy and hands him to Tarzan] Then go to your father, Boy. And later on, he'll teach you all the things you'll ever need to know in the jungle. Then look out all you lions and tigers and snakes and crocodiles and cannibals out there in the jungle! The king has a son!

  • [last lines]

    Tarzan: Jane not go! Jane not die!

    [pause]

    Tarzan: Jane all right?

    Jane: Yes Darling. Everything's all right now.

  • [first lines]

    Boy: Cheetah! What is it?

    Jane: Cheetah must be seeing things. What is it, Tarzan? What is it?

    Tarzan: Uguna. Strange sound in sky. Big. Far off.

    Jane: I don't hear anything.

    Tarzan: Tarzan hear. Cheetah hear. Elephant hear.

    Boy: Now I hear it. Like a great wind coming.

  • [last lines]

    Tarzan: Swim!

  • Tarzan: Jane, Tarzan. Tarzan, Jane.

  • Tarzan: Jane lead way. Tarzan follow always.

  • Tarzan: [inside the smoke-filled Club Moonbeam in New York] Smell like a Swahili swamp. Why people stay?

    Jane: It's what they call having a good time.

  • Tarzan: Boy little Tarzan.

    Jane: And I want him to grow up to be a big Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Tarzan watch Boy.

    Jane: I know you will. I know I shouldn't worry. I know there's no need to worry as long as you're with me. At first, I used to have so many little fears for myself, for Boy. But one by one, you've chased them all away. Wouldn't it be strange if someday I became as brave as you are?

    Tarzan: Jane no need to be brave. Jane beautiful. Jane good.

    Jane: You are my goodness, darling. My strength.

    Tarzan: [pointing] Jane. Tarzan. Tarzan. Jane.

  • Jane: You mustn't be angry with him, dear. He realizes so little yet.

    Tarzan: Boy good. People bad.

    Jane: We mustn't blame them for wanting gold. In the outside world, gold means as much to them as the strength in your arms means to you.

    Tarzan: People nowrashima. Fools!

    Jane: Not all of them. But none of them have what we have.

    Tarzan: Tarzan have Jane.

    Jane: They'll be gone tomorrow and we'll be alone again. Wonderfully alone as we've always been. Has it seemed a long time, Tarzan?

    Tarzan: Sun make one safari for Jane Tarzan.

    Jane: Oh Tarzan! A poet couldn't have said that more beautifully!

  • [last lines]

    Jane: He'll never tell where his riches came from. You can be sure of that.

    Tarzan: Tarzan sure.

  • Tarzan: Jane like Tarzan?

    Jane: What woman wouldn't like a husband who brings her orchids?

    Boy: There's a whole valley of orchids just across the river.

    Jane: I know, darling, but out in civilization, they don't grow that way. You have to be very rich to have them. You don't realize what a very wealthy man your father is.

    Boy: Who? Tarzan?

    Jane: Yes. He has everything any man could want. Everything.

    Tarzan: [sweeps Jane into his arms] Tarzan have Jane!

  • Jane: How do you do, Mr. O'Doul?

    O'Doul: I'm doing better, ma'am, thanks to your charming presence.

    Tarzan: O'Doul good little man. Like Cheeta.

    O'Doul: Ah, now don't be comparin' me with him, Mr. Tarzan. If this here heathen resembles anybody, it's me wife's second brother, Marcus V. O'Connell.

  • Jane: My, the water's beautiful tonight!

    Tarzan: Not water. Jane!

    Jane: Mr. Tarzan, as nice little Mr. O'Doul would say, 'tis blarney you're giving me.

    Tarzan: Blarney?

    Jane: We call it love, darling. Do you remember when we first used to swim here?

    Tarzan: Tarzan remember.

    Jane: To think that I was ever frightened of you. You know, Tarzan, when a man meets a young lady in the outside world, he doesn't dare behave not one bit like you did.

    Tarzan: What man do?

    Jane: Well, they shake hands, that is, if she offers him her hand. Then he bows from the hips and asks permission to call. And then if she's of age, he takes her to some parties or theater or somewhere to dine. And then, if he decides he wants her for his wife, he goes to see her father.

    Tarzan: Why? What do with father?

    Jane: To ask him his permission to marry his daughter.

    Tarzan: Why?

    Jane: That's the way it's done. Politely. With etiquette.

    Tarzan: Too much talk. Tarzan way better.

  • Palanth, the High Priest: If my people knew anyone posed as Balu, they would destroy him.

    Tarzan: If people know Balu a man, they destroy you.

  • Tarzan: If an animal can act like a man, why not a man like an animal?

  • Tarzan: Leopards did not kill this man. Leopards never kill with claws alone. Use teeth!

  • [first lines]

    Tarzan: Cheeta, come on.

  • Ken: I've said it a hundred times. How can a boy survive that long, six years in the jungle alone?

    Tarzan: It's been done.

  • Myrna: Now let me tell you something, Mr. Tarzan. I was only fifteen when my dad and I covered the Alaska earthquake. It was I who found the Silk Stocking Killer in Paris, and got his exclusive story, while the entire police department was out looking for him. I can take care of myself.

    Tarzan: Well that's great, because I don't want that responsibility.

  • Tarzan: You're a chief now, Buhara. And laws are important. But when a law is wrong, our chiefs try to change it.

  • [last lines]

    Tarzan: Your mother would have wanted you to go back, Erik. Back to her world. Then one day, when you're old enough and if you really want to, you cam come back here. As I did.

    Erik: My father, he knew all about rocks. Many kinds of rocks. I can remember that.

    Tarzan: He was a geologist. Would you like to be like your father, Erik?

    Erik: Yes, I would be very proud.

  • Tarzan: The jungle is no place for a woman.

  • Jai: You have an elephant?

    Tarzan: I have many friends who are elephants - but I don't own any of them.

  • Jai: Why, why you wear such clothes like me?

    Tarzan: Because I live in the jungle, just like you.

  • Tarzan: Jai, you've got to understand that there are other people who love the elephants.

    Jai: You want to stop them too?

    Tarzan: Of course I do. Not the same way that you do. They're too strong for you.

    Jai: No one is stronger than Kajendra.

    Tarzan: Guns are stronger than Kajendra and guns will kill Kajendra.

  • [last lines]

    Jai: Tarzan! You are not going away, Tarzan.

    Tarzan: Jai, friends are always in each other's hearts. I'll be back someday.

    Jai: [fighting back tears] I won't cry. I am a man.

    Tarzan: Yes, you're a man.

  • Tarzan: Queen make wise laws, girl will obey.

  • Tarzan: Every time men bring guns, men bring trouble.

  • Captain Sam Bishop: I don't get it! You mean you travel with a chimp and a lion?

    Tarzan: I have my reasons.

  • Tarzan: If you do not let me go, young chief will die.

  • Tarzan: I can't understand a man who would rather live in fear than fight - no matter what the cost!

  • Tarzan: Boy, never kill for fun. Only for food!

    Boy: I wasn't going to shoot him.

    Tarzan: Boy man now... do man's work.

  • Tarzan: What Jane dream about?

    Jane: Just thinking about all the happy years we've spent in the jungle together.

    Boy: Tarzan, weren't you ever lonesome living alone in the jungle before you met Jane?

    Tarzan: No. Lots of animal friends in jungle. Jungle much more peaceful before woman come.

    Jane: Well, I like that!

  • Tarzan: Everybody like fishing, even kings.

  • Tarzan: Animals belong in jungle, not in cages.

  • Lola: [callling for Tarzan] Tarzan!

    Tarzan: Lola call.

    Jane: When Lola call, Tarzan run.

    Tarzan: Jane run, too.

    Jane: [jealous] Yeah, Jane run, too!

  • George: They attacked me - thousands upon thousands!

    Tarzan: Thousands of what?

    George: Turtles!

  • Tarzan: [Holding up a mink pulled from the plane's wreckage] What kind of hide is this?

    Gamage Dean: It's mink. And don't ask me what I had to do to get it.

    'Doodles' Fletcher: The same thing the mink did.

  • Tarzan: White boy. Boy English.

    Joseph 'Joey' Martin: No, I'm American.

    Tarzan: Boy speak English. Boy English.

    Joseph 'Joey' Martin: I'm American.

    Tarzan: Boy English.

  • Tarzan: No matter where I go, you will always be my mother.

    Kala: And you will always be in my heart.

  • [Tarzan sneaks up behind her to try and scare her]

    Kala: Don't even think about it.

    Tarzan: How'd you know it was me?

    Kala: I'm your mother. I know everything. Now, where have you been?

    Tarzan: I thought you knew everything.

  • Kerchak: You came back.

    Tarzan: I came home.

  • Jane Porter: [after being caught in a tree with Tarzan] Now, you stay away from me. Like a very good wild man.

    [Tarzan doesn't listen]

    Jane Porter: You stay. I'm warning you... My father won't take kind to you.

    [Tarzan is inches from her face]

    Jane Porter: Now, that's close ENOUGH.

    [Tarzan touches her face]

    Jane Porter: How dare you...

    [Tarzan grabs her hand, as she tries to smack him, and he notices a tear in the tip of the finger of her glove. He stares and pulls off her glove and stares at her hand. He then puts his hand next to hers to show that he's human, too. He puts his head on her chest to hear her heartbeat. Once he hears it, he pulls her head to his chest so she can hear his heartbeat]

    Jane Porter: Oh, dear. Oh, dear, oh, dear, OH, dear! Mmm. Yes, thank you.

    [pulls away from Tarzan's chest]

    Jane Porter: It's a lovely heartbeat. It's very nice.

    Tarzan: [imitating Jane] It's very nice.

    Jane Porter: [thinking as though he's talking about her hair] Oh, thank you. I can't do a thing with it in this humidity and - you do speak? And all this time I thought you were this big, wild, quiet, silent, person-thing! Hmm! And why didn't you tell me? I mean, I must say I'm rather curious of who you are. I'd love to-

    [Tarzan shuts her mouth with his fingers]

    Tarzan: [grunts and points to himself] Tarzan.

    [Jane looks confused]

    Tarzan: Tar-zan!

    Jane Porter: Tar-zan?

    [Tarzan grunts happily]

    Jane Porter: Oh, I see!

    Tarzan: [points to self] Tarzan.

    [points to Jane]

    Tarzan: Oh, I see.

    Jane Porter: No, no, no. No. Amph. I'm Jane.

    Tarzan: [mimiking her tone and gestures] No, no, no. No. Amph. I'm Jane.

    Jane Porter: No, no. Jane. Tarzan. Jane.

    Tarzan: [points to Jane] Jane.

    Jane Porter: Exactly.

  • [Tarzan takes Clayton's gun and aims it at him]

    Clayton: Go ahead. Shoot me.

    [chuckles]

    Clayton: Be a man.

    [a shot is heard, but not from the gun; it's Tarzan mimicking a gunshot]

    Tarzan: Not a man like you!

  • Tarzan: Kerchak, forgive me.

    Kerchak: No. Forgive me, for not understanding that you have always been one of us. Our family will look to you now.

    Tarzan: No. Kerchak.

    Kerchak: Take care of them, my son. Take care of them.

  • Terk: Can you believe that guy? Drops us like a newborn giraffe - kerplop! - then waltzes in and expects us to...

    Tarzan: Terk, I'm asking you as a friend.

    [Looks at Terk with big, soulful eyes]

    Terk: Oh, with the face and the eyes... All right! All right! But you'd better not make me do anything stupid.

    [Cut to Terk in Jane's dress]

    Terk: I'm going to kill him!

  • Kerchak: Everyone, we will avoid the strangers. Do not let them see you and do not seek them out.

    Tarzan: They mean us no harm.

    Kerchak: Tarzan, I don't know that.

    Tarzan: But I do. I have spent time with them.

    Kerchak: You may be willing to risk our safety, but I'm not.

    Tarzan: Why are you threatened by anyone different from you?

    Kerchak: Protect this family and stay away from them.

    [Tarzan sulks away]

    Kala: Tarzan, for once listen to Kerchak.

    Tarzan: Why didn't you tell me there were creatures who look like me?

  • 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...

  • [a gunshot breaks the jungle silence]

    Tarzan: What was that?

    Tantor: It wasn't me, I swear.

  • Tarzan: Tarzan. Tar-zan.

    Jane Porter: Tarzan. Oh, I see!

    Tarzan: Oh, I see!

    Tarzan: [points at himself] Tarzan.

    Tarzan: [points at Jane] Oh, I see.

    Jane Porter: No, no, no. No.

    Jane Porter: [clears throat, points at herself] I'm Jane.

    Tarzan: No, no, no. No.

    Tarzan: [clears throat, points at himself] I'm Jane.

    Jane Porter: No, no.

    Jane Porter: [points at herself] Jane.

    Jane Porter: [points at Tarzan] Tarzan.

    Jane Porter: [points at herself] Jane.

    Tarzan: Jane.

    Jane Porter: Exactly.

  • Clayton: Sorry for the rude welcome, but I couldn't have you making a scene when we put your furry friends in their cages.

    Tarzan: Why?

    Clayton: Why? For 300 pounds sterling a head. Actually, I have you to thank, old boy. Couldn't have done it without you.

  • Tarzan: I'll need a good rope, a hunting knife, and a soft piece of leather.

  • Tarzan: [Challenged on wearing the loincloth he has constructed:] The outfit is casual, but practical.

  • Boy: [reading Jane's letter] My darlings, I can't begin to tell you how much I miss you both, and how happy I will be when this horrible war is over and I can come home to you again.

    Tarzan: Tarzan happy too.

    Boy: [continues reading] Many of the soldiers in the hospital where I am working have just been brought home from Burma. And in addition to their wounds are suffering from jungle fever. Would be wonderful if you could send me some of the fever medicine which cured Boy when he was so ill, for I'm certain that it would help our soldiers, too. You'd do this for me, won't you Tarzan?

    Tarzan: Tarzan get. Read more.

    [Boy scans letter to find instructions from Jane to not allow Boy to go with Tarzan into the desert]

    Tarzan: Read more! Boy, read more!

    Boy: Now, let's see. Where was I? Just a... just a... Oh! Here I am!

    [crosses fingers behind his back]

    Boy: Because the trip will take several days, you must not think of leaving Boy and Cheeta this time. The great desert will be very educational for them.

    Tarzan: Jane say Tarzan take Boy?

    Boy: That's right, Tarzan.

  • Boy: Well Tarzan, what are we waiting for?

    Tarzan: Boy and Cheeta go back to escarpment now.

    Boy: Aw Tarzan, be a sport. We wanna help you get the fever medicine.

    Tarzan: Jane asks Tarzan to get fever medicine. Boy stay home.

    Boy: Well Tarzan, I don't remember reading anything like that in Jane's letter.

    Tarzan: Then Boy read letter again.

    [hands letter to Boy]

    Boy: Well, let's see.

    [pretends to read]

    Boy: Of course you must not think of leaving Boy and Cheeta this time. The great desert will be very educational for them.

    Tarzan: Boy read letter like Jane say?

    Boy: Certainly, Tarzan. Just like Jane say.

    Tarzan: Why Boy lie?

    Boy: I had my fingers crossed!

    [sees that Tarzan is not amused]

    Boy: It's lonesome on the escarpment without you, Tarzan.

    [Tarzan is still not moved]

    Boy: Alright. Come Cheeta! Goodbye Tarzan. Hurry home!

    [starts to walk away]

    Tarzan: Boy wait! Tarzan take!

  • Boy: [to Connie] You oughta see our house in the jungle. It's really peaceful.

    Tarzan: Boy wish he were home, eh?

    Boy: Well, uh... Why don't you come and live with us, Connie?

    Connie Bryce: Oh! Listen, you better not tempt me.

    [Cheeta dances for joy]

    Boy: Cheeta says yes. What do you say, Tarzan?

    Tarzan: Connie used to big cities. Connie get lonesome here soon.

    Connie Bryce: I've been lonesome all my life.

    [Uncomfortable with the conversation, Tarzan leaves]

    Connie Bryce: What's the matter, Boy? Did I say something to upset him?

    Boy: It's alright, Connie. But you see, Tarzan's lonesome, too. For Jane.

    Connie Bryce: Oh. Is that the girl you mentioned in your prayers? Is she your mother?

    [Boy nods]

    Connie Bryce: You both must love her very much.

    Boy: Of course we do.

    Connie Bryce: Gee, she's a lucky girl.

    Boy: Tarzan and I are the lucky ones.

  • Tarzan: I never knew them.

    Jane's friends: Oh.

    Tarzan: They were killed by Sabor, the leopard...

    Jane's friends: Oh.

    Tarzan: In this room...

    Jane's friends: Oh!

    Tarzan: Right there.

    Jane: Tarzan!

  • Mike: Look, I love you guys. This trip has been ridiculous and amazing. So please, do not make me give the whole 'it's not about how we go out there and do it, it's about getting to go out there and do it together' speech that I just gave you. What are you? You're not a fireman.

    Big Dick Richie: I'm a male entertainer.

    Mike: Oh yeah, what are we?

    Big Dick RichieSalvadorTarzan: Male entertainers

    Rome: Hey, hey, hey, hold that up. Look, it's not bro time, it's show time. Are you guys ready?

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