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Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan? -- Johnny Weissmuller
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees. -- Casper Van Dien
How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million? -- Johnny Weissmuller
Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely. -- Johnny Weissmuller
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. -- Phil Collins
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. -- Casper Van Dien
I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.' -- Henry Louis Gates
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor. -- Johnny Weissmuller
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit. -- Esther Williams
I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. -- Carol Burnett
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. -- Junot Diaz
I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache. -- Jean Dujardin
When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.' -- James Dobson
One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular. -- Ralph Bakshi
Unlike other enduring characters such as 'Sherlock Holmes' or 'Tarzan,' being the 'Doctor' allows you a certain freedom that is both very demanding and very thrilling. It allows you to make the character using elements of yourself. -- David Tennant
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. -- Phil Collins
I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky. -- Muhammad Ali
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all. -- Jane Goodall
You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard. -- Peer Steinbruck
My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' -- Henry Louis Gates
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard -- George Carlin
Tarzan-like men are my weakness, apparently. -- Colleen Houck
I'm playing like Tarzan-and scoring like Jane. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees -- Casper Van Dien
What good is it to look like Tarzan and play like Jane? -- John Welborn
Me, Tarzan. You, Jane. I kill bad guy. Beat chest. Tarzan howl. -- Stephanie Rowe
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan? -- Robert A. Heinlein
A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah. -- Ronald Reagan
Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? -- Steven Wright
When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote -- Casper Van Dien
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I knew that there were black people in Africa, of course, unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan'. -- Henry Louis Gates
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white. -- Muhammad Ali
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. -- Ishmael Reed
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. -- Timothy Ferriss
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan. -- Jane Goodall
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan. -- Jane Goodall
Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime. -- Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn
I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit -- Esther Williams
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor -- Johnny Weissmuller
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan. -- Bill Watterson
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated. -- Junot Diaz
Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard. -- Meg Cabot
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them. --
Last night I had a dream. When I got to Africa, I had one hell of a rumble. I had to beat Tarzan's behind first, for claiming to be King of the Jungle. -- Muhammad Ali
How can a guy climb trees, say 'Me, Tarzan, you, Jane,' and make a million? The public forgives my acting because they know I was an athlete. They know I wasn't make-believe. -- Johnny Weissmuller
There's a weird thing about me and characters with hair, from Ariel or Pocahontas to Tarzan with his dreadlocks and now Rapunzel... it's like I'm trying to make up for some loss in my life, I don't know what that is. -- Glen Keane
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love. -- Miriam Makeba
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, "Tarzan and the Lost Empire", there are 31 books on my list. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
My mom was beautiful; she was supposed to be the original Jane in the original Tarzan movie. They asked her to put her foot in the water and there was an alligator in there, and she wouldn't put her foot in the water. -- Dr. John
As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his lifelong enemy and, raising his eyes to the full moon, threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall. -- Jean Liedloff
Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing. -- Joe Shuster
In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off. -- Andie MacDowell
When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan. -- Jane Goodall

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