Quotes

Tarzán

Dan: Okay, how do I explain this? When you're a star, everybody knows you.
Tarzan: Everybody knows Dan: Jane, Roger, Cheetah...
Dan: No, no, no, Tarzan, I mean everybody all around the world. You're in the newspaper every day, you're on TV every day, you sign autographs.
Tarzan: Autographs?
Dan: Yeah, you write your name on a piece of paper.
Tarzan: Why?
Dan: Because you're famous! Because everybody wants a piece of you. That's what makes them happy.
Tarzan: The sun makes people happy. Trees make people happy. Why does a piece of paper make people happy?
[pause]
Dan: I'll have to get back to you on that.

Roger: You know, someday, you're going to have to start reading something other than airplane manuals.
Dan: Okay, Great Wizard of the Book.

Dan: Somebody explain to me why I live in a house with no walls in the middle of monsoon territory.
Roger: The rent's cheap?
Dan: Oh, yeah. I knew it was something.

Starr Reilly: You're sure you've never heard of me?
Tarzan: Tarzan is sure.
Starr Reilly: What, you don't have a CD player? Okay, a radio? Now come on, you must watch videos!
Tarzan: Tarzan watches the jungle. That is enough.

Tarzan: In Tarzan's jungle, it is more important to protect the living than to protect memories.

Simon: I missed the city once, Jane. I missed the rush and the color, and the sight of women so beautiful in their dresses and high heels. Then I looked at this jungle, at the birds and the trees, the ground so alive beneath me, and I realized that out here in the middle of nowhere, in a place not even on the map... I was closer to God.

Jane: You could have told me there was water nearby before I made a fool of myself.
Tarzan: Jane is not a fool. Just wrong.

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