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Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?
Johnny Weissmuller / Swimmer
Blond
Tarzan
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In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees.
Casper Van Dien / Actor
Bees
Worry
Tarzan
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Oddly enough, Black Panther's almost like an analog to Tarzan.
Brian Stelfreeze /
Analog
Oddly
Panther
Tarzan
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My nickname was Tarzan: I found my food in the jungle; I hunted birds.
Rohan Marley /
Hunted
Jungle
Nickname
Tarzan
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How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
Johnny Weissmuller / Swimmer
Guy
Jane
Climb
Million
Tarzan
Trees
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After 'Tarzan - The Wonder Car,' I didn't want to do any and every film.
Vatsal Sheth /
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Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
Johnny Weissmuller / Swimmer
Pals
Real
Real Work
Swimming
Work Me Start
Set
Gave
Nicely
Pal
Tarzan
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The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
Phil Collins / Musician
Details
Hotel
London
Rooms
Sat
Detail
Discussed
Project
Hotel Room
Opened
Tarzan
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As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
Casper Van Dien / Actor
Carpenter
Action Movies
John
John Carpenter
Meltdown
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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 / Literary Critic
Movie
Actors
Black
People
Africa
Movies Black People
Unfortunately
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As a kid, my nickname was Tarzan. I never wore shoes, and I walked around and fished and camped out and just was a grub.
Travis Fimmel / Actor
Shoes
Nickname
Tarzan
Walked
Wore
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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 / Swimmer
Tree
Director
Climbed
Limb
Sent
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I do sometimes joke that I'm Tarzan and Ben's Jane when it comes to dealing with spiders or if there's dead things in the garden.
Sara Cox / Presenter
Garden
Jane
Spiders
Ben
Tarzan
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There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
Harlan Ellison / Writer
Arctic
Somalia
Great Gatsby
Hamlet
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When I got to know Margot Robbie on the set of 'The Legend of Tarzan,' I learned just how important it is to be lovely to everyone you meet.
Ella Purnell /
Lovely
Legend
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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 / Actress
Bergdorf Goodman
Circumstances
Goodman
Gun
Burst
Guard
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I don't think that 'Just Mohabbat' or 'Tarzan' were a hindrance. 'Tarzan' didn't do well at the box office but I would say the kids loved it.
Vatsal Sheth /
Box Office
Hindrance
Tarzan
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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 / Swimmer
Bathing
Swimmer
Anyway
Bathing Suit
Gotten
Long Gone
Suit
Tarzan
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I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice.
Carol Burnett / Actress
Good I Am Doing
Screaming
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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 / Author
Impressed
Home Me Way
Swing
Tarzan
Trees
Vine
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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 / Actor
Comic
Rice
Edgar
Tarzan
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If I could choose, I'd be bare feet with animals all around me and living in a tree house. Like Tarzan and Jane, that's my dream. I'm at my happiest around nature.
Gisele Bundchen / Fashion Model
Bare Feet
Feet
If I Could
Jane
Tree
Animals
Bare
Choose
Happiest
Tarzan
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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 / Actor
Mustache
Roles
Zorro
Watched
Douglas
Tarzan
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I was actually looking at the poster for 'Tarzan,' and I was thinking how abs look so different now. These are not your grandma's abs. They go so deep and so sharp now.
Kumail Nanjiani / Stand-Up Comedian
Grandma
Poster
Sharp
Tarzan
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I'm sure they will have more sequels for 'Tarzan' where he goes to England, school, and whatever else they can think of. It's a natural that they will continue the series.
Kevin Lima /
England
Sequels
Series
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'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 / Writer
Imagination
Colossal
Generations
Mars
Princess
Underestimated
Exerted
Pull
Readers
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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 / Animator
Design
Animated
Crazy
Spectacular
Stories
Traditional
Disney
Tarzan
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Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.
Michael T. Weiss /
Capable
Innocent
Great Character World
Qualities
Simultaneously
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The way we got Phil Collins for 'Tarzan' was that we heard around the studio that he was looking for a Disney project, and we got him. It seemed like a perfect match. Phil is a great musician.
Kevin Lima /
Musician
Collins
Disney
Match
Phil
Phil Collins
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I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.
Shane Black / Screenwriter
Carter
Rice
Storyteller
Edgar
Great Writer
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From the very, very beginning, we made the decision that 'Tarzan' wasn't going to sing. My co-director, Chris Buck, and I said to each other that we couldn't imagine a half-naked man in the jungle simply bursting into song.
Kevin Lima /
Bursting
Decision
Imagine
Jungle
Song
Beginning
Buck
Chris
Simply
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I sat with the grandson of Edgar Rice Burroughs at the world premiere of 'Tarzan,' and at the end of the film, he was very happy. He told me that we were bringing 'Tarzan' to a whole new generation, and he was very grateful.
Kevin Lima /
Grandson
New Generation
Rice
Sat
World Me New
Bringing
Edgar
Premiere
Tarzan
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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 / Choreographer
Ballet
Chaplin
Hooked
Mgm
Mother
Opera
Mother Me Remember
Astaire
Fred
Musicals
Tarzan
Vividly
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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 / Actor
Elements
Holmes
Thrilling
Doctor
Demanding
Enduring
Unlike
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
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The first home system we had was an Apple II, and I remember playing a game called 'Conan.' It should have been called 'Tarzan' because you were essentially Conan running around a forest with a boomerang, but it was obviously Tarzan.
Thomas Middleditch / Actor
Boomerang
Conan
Apple
Apple Ii
Forest
Tarzan
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We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
Kevin Lima /
Animal
Good Bye
Wave
Gorilla
Stand Up
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I remember myself as an asthmatic child, having great difficulties at 7, 8 and 9 years old, falling totally in love with 'Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle' and dreaming of having his strength to leap into trees and throw mighty lions to the ground.
Gene Roddenberry / Screenwriter
Jungle
Leap
Lions
Asthmatic
Difficulties
Dreaming
Falling
Mighty
Tarzan
Trees
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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 / Professional Boxer
Jesus
America
Boxing
White
Wonder
Wonder Woman
Ring
Counteract
Create
Gets
Image
Images
Rocky
Screen
Tarzan
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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 / Musician
Broadway
Brother
New Songs
Score
Song
Writing
Version
Bear
Drums
Tarzan
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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 / Primatologist
Bursting
Film
Mum
Remember
Tears
Love Me Remember
Africa
Animals
Books
Dr
Johnny
Imagined
Novels
Starred
Taking
Tarzan
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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 / Literary Critic
Movie
Queens
Character
Extensions
Jungle
Neighbors And Friends
Africa
African
Queen
Programs
Neighbors
Tarzan
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From 'Just Mohabbat' to my Bollywood movie 'Tarzan - The Wonder car,' I still get messages from fans saying that they are watching my movie. And then when I made a comeback with 'Ek Hasina Thi' as a villain, people enjoyed it as well. Even my wife Ishita loves that show.
Vatsal Sheth /
Bollywood
Comeback
Messages
Villain
Tarzan
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When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.
Raoul Peck / Filmmaker
Congo
Haiti
Savages
Arrived
Images
Tarzan
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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 / Artist
Artist
Collecting
Delight
Flash
Intense
Pages
Foster
Hal
Joe
Tarzan
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If you love Tarzan, you can read stories from the 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan,' where he's just a kid, all the way up until he has a son of his own and beyond. Same with 'Batman' - you can follow him from Gotham, as a kid, to 'Dark Knight,' as a cranky old weirdo. I really love that.
Gail Simone / Writer
Dark
Jungle
Son
Stories
Tales
Weirdo
Batman
Beyond
Read
Follow
Tarzan
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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 / Former Federal Ministry Of Finance (Germany)
Men
Accurate
Hybrid
Media
Politician
Regard
Always Man Your
Alienate
Bake
Besides
Candidate
Man Always Your
Politicians
Einstein
Experiences
Images
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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 / Model
Amazed
Dust
Humiliating
Laughing
Southern
Accent
Legend
Ended
Glenn
Glenn Close
Starred
Stock
Supposedly
Tarzan
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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 / Primatologist
Home
Book
Found
Tree
Used
Years
Little
Just
Afford
Ape
Bought
Loved
Favorite
Climbed
Could
Cover
Read
Old
Fell
Haunt
Immediately
Secondhand
Tarzan
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