Kim Hunter credited as playing...
Zira
- Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: [testing Lewis's assertion that the apes can speak] What is your name?
- Dr. Zira: Zira.
- Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: One might as well be talking to a parrot.
- Dr. Zira: A parrot?
- Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: What did I tell you? Mechanical mimicry. Unique in an ape, vocally, without a doubt, but... does the other one talk?
- Cornelius: Only when she lets me.
- [as part of an intelligence test, Zira builds a stairway out of blocks to reach a hanging banana; and then after climbing the stairway, just sits beneath it staring]
- Dr. Stephanie Branton: Well why doesn't she take it?
- Dr. Zira: Because I loathe bananas!
- Dr. Zira: A marriage bed is made for two. But every damn morning, it's the woman who has to make it. We have heads as well as hands. I call upon men to let us use them!