Tarzan the Ape Man (1981)

Bo Derek: Jane Parker

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Quotes 

• Harry Holt : Jane, do you know what he wants? What this ape wants?

  Jane : He's not an ape!

  Harry Holt : He is an ape. He lives like an ape, he kills like an ape. But do you understand what he wants?

  Jane : You know everything...

  Harry Holt : Well, this ape son of a bitch wants you.

  Parker : I'm gonna catch that animal son of a bitch, Mr Holt!

• Jane : [to Tarzan]  Don't you know how to smile? Do you know you're more beautiful than any girl I know? Oh, you're a lot more! Come here. Come here!

• Parker : You don't find me a very pretty sight, do you?

  Jane : I don't find you a pretty sight.

• Parker : I loved her too much. So frail. So very - fragile. God, how I loved you.

  Jane : Her. You loved her.

  Parker : Yes. Her. But you are her.

  Jane : I am not.

• Parker : How much do you hate me?

  Jane : I think, so very, very much.

  Parker : Hate is a very strong emotion. It can drain one.

  Jane : I know.

• Harry Holt : You're very beautiful and very able, also.

  Jane : Thank you.

  Harry Holt : Ballooning over the Alps. You could live on a thrill like that for a long time. I wish I'd made that trip.

  Jane : Does it bother you that I did?

  Harry Holt : I'm sorry. I don't understand?

  Jane : But, of course you do! It's a man's world. Women aren't allowed to be participants. We're here for your pleasure, not for ours.

• Jane : I don't dislike men. I envy them. I envy your freedom. I resent not having the same.

• Parker : Open your eyes. Lift them up. Now!

  Jane : Oh, my God!

  Parker : I told you - I told you it was a god damn big rock.

  Jane : Oh, my God!

• Jane : What was it?

  Parker : I told you. I believe it's Tarzan.

  Jane : But, I don't know what Tarzan is?

  Harry Holt : It's a great white ape. It's supposedly ten feet tall.

  Parker : A great white man, supposedly one hundred feet tall!

  Harry Holt : Well, it's a story. It's half man, half ape. Gigantic. White.

• Jane : All your faith is based on this?

  Parker : This and the seat of my pants.

• Jane : I'm quite capable of taking a bath without assistance.

• Jane : Stop! Please, stop. Please! Oh! Oh. Stop! Please, stop! Oh, mother of God, stop. Please!

• Jane : Are you Tarzan? One hundred feet tall? Maybe a thousand? The great - white - ape. You're just a man. I never touched a man before.

  [touches Tarzan] 

  Jane : It's nice. Very nice.

• Jane : Oh, my God! You scared me! And I scared you.

• Jane : You don't understand a word I say. Do you? Oh, what are we gonna do? Oh!

• Jane : [unpeeling a banana]  James Parker you were wrong! I'm still a virgin. Now, I don't know if that's good or bad? What are you? You'd have to be. I mean, there's no one. You'd have to be, wouldn't you?

  [bites the banana] 

  Jane : It's a strange problem. God, if the girls back home could see me now!

  [offers a piece of her banana to Tarzan] 

• Jane : I feel so strange! Like I'm reading this in a book! But, I'm not. I'm really here. But, I don't believe it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry or just turn to the next page. God, I sure hope it has a happy ending!

• Jane : Come on. Here we go! Now, don't stop me!

• Jane : [Tarzan starts touching Jane]  Oh, God! Oh, God! Oh, God! The chapter always ended before this part. Mmm. James Parker, you might be right. He might want me. He just might. James Parker, it's wicked, I know; but, I hope you're right.

• Parker : Jane. Jane! Answer me, Jane!

  Jane : Yeah! They're washing me just like a whore! Oh, no!

  Parker : Jane, leave here! Let's just, leave here! Go to the - go to the clouds, Jane! Yes, go to the clouds!

• Jane : They're painting me.

  Parker : Jane.

  Jane : They're painting my hair.

  Parker : Jane.

  Jane : They're painting it white.

  Parker : Jane! Jane, listen to me. Jane, do you like merry-go-rounds?

  Jane : Merry-go-rounds?

  Parker : Yes. We will take a ride on one. You and I together. We'll bring Mr. Holt with us. Mr. Holt, you will take a ride with us on a merry-go-round. We'll go round and round the heavens of the Greek gods! Jane, I see - Aphrodite. And she's not half as beautiful as you are! Who do you see Jane?

  Jane : Who do I see? Oh, God, who do I see? Who do I see? I see Zeus.

  Parker : Ah, Zeus.

  Jane : No, I only see them smearing me with paint!

• Jane : Oh, God, tell me a story. Be a good daddy, tell me a story and make him go away.

  Parker : Yes, I will, Jane. I'll tell you a story. A story. A story. Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall! Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! All the king's horses and all the kings men. Could not put this bloody Humpty Dumpty together again!

• Jane : Oh, my God, he's coming!

  Parker : Now, Jane, listen to me. And listen to me well! For once, what I am going to tell you is the absolute truth! If he touches you, he is not touching *you*! You are not of the flesh. You are of the spirit! That is why you must leave your body - right now! You must leave him with nothing!