King Kong Quotes

• If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Real, Sometimes, Mundane

  Interview With Christopher Bahn, film.avclub.com. March 21, 2006.

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• I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

  Petra Haden

  Depressing, Kings, Dark

  "Petra Haden picks her favorite cinematic scores of all time" by Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 22, 2013.

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• The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Beautiful, Sweet, Kings

  "Beat of a Different Drummer". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 14, 1999.

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• No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

  Peter Jackson

  Kings, Years, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

  Lyle Alzado

  Football, Kings, College

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• King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Kings, Opera

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• We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Night, Leaving

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• It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

  Linda Howard

  Kings, Kissing, Monkeys

  Linda Howard (2009). “Night Moves: Dream Man/After the Night”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• What I love about films is that you can see "King Kong" and you can be affected by it and then you realize that he was just this little guy when he made that fall.

  Peter Jackson

  Kings, Fall, Guy

  "Peter Jackson's labor of love". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2005.

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• I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Icons, Cinema

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• I mean, of course "King Kong" is a metaphor for the slave trade. I'm not saying the makers of "King Kong" meant it to be that way, but that's what, that's the movie that they made - whether they meant to make it or not.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Kings, Mean, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

  Dian Fossey

  Kings, Wildlife, Adults

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

  Peter O'Toole

  Kings, Men, Feet

  "Fictional character: Eli Cross". "The Stunt Man", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• Happy Birthday to Fay Wray, a wonderful actress. She was, of course, in the movie 'King Kong' and would have been 99-years-old today. She was famous because of her love interest with a giant ape, and, wait a minute, that's Maria Shriver.

  David Letterman

  Kings, Years, Waiting

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• He's bad, bad Leroy Brown, baddest dude in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, and meaner than a junk yard dog.

  Jim Croce

  Dog, Kings, Junk

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• A dozen war reporters and TV crew, and the King Kong Elvis sang right on cue.

  Tom Robinson

  Kings, War, Dozen

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• I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

  Kyle Chandler

  Kings, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• I think there's a part of all of us that wonders how we would survive on an island untouched by Man. Even better, an island untouched by Man and inhabited by King Kong.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Captivity

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Kings, New York, Tired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

  David Haye

  Kings, Motivation, Dvds

  "David Haye aiming to unmask 'bogeyman' Nikolai Valuev", www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2009.

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• To me "King Kong" is a metaphor for America's fear of the black male. And to me that's obvious. All right? So I mean that was one of the first things I said when I was talking to a friend of mine after he saw Peter Jackson's version of "King Kong."

  Quentin Tarantino

  Kings, Mean, America

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum, King Kong, Captain Haddock, the lot. They totally get it, and they want to go into the business. Ruby, my daughter, is very keen to become an actress.

  Andy Serkis

  Daughter, Mother, Kings

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• I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong were primates, whereas I'm playing a serpent, so it'll be interesting - I'll have to tie my legs together, possibly, or else they'll be kind of splayed out to the side as a reptile's should be.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Kings, Ties, Interesting

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