King Kong Quotes

[Captain translates Native Chief's comments on Ann Darrow]

Captain Englehorn: He says, "Look at the golden woman."

Carl Denham: Yeah, blondes are scarce around here.

[Kong has been knocked out by gas bombs]

Carl Denham: Why, the whole world will pay to see this.

Captain Englehorn: No chains will ever hold that.

Carl Denham: We'll give him more than chains. He's always been king of his world, but we'll teach him fear. We're millionaires, boys. I'll share it with all of you. Why, in a few months, it'll be up in lights on Broadway: Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World.

[last lines]

Police Lieutenant: Well, Denham, the airplanes got him.

Carl Denham: Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.

Carl Denham: [after discovering a huge footprint of Kong] Keep those guns cocked.

Crew member: He's tellin' us.

Crew member: I'd hate to have that thing wrapped around me.

Theatre Patron: Say, what is it, anyhow?

Theatre Patron: I hear it's a kind of a gorilla.

Theatre Patron: Gee - ain't we got enough of them in New York?

Carl Denham: [just before he instructs Ann on how to act in front of the camera] I see you've put on the "Beauty and the Beast" costume!

Ann Darrow: Uh, huh... it's the prettiest!

Jack Driscoll: What do you call that thing?

Carl Denham: Something from the dinosaur family.

Jack Driscoll: Dinosaur, eh?

Carl Denham: Yes, Jack; a prehistoric beast.

Captain Englehorn: And you expect to photograph it?

Carl Denham: If it's there, you bet I'll photograph it!

Jack Driscoll: Suppose it doesn't like having its picture taken?

Carl Denham: Well, now you know why I brought along those cases of gas bombs

Carl Denham: [talking to Jack across the ravine] Why, you wouldn't follow that beast alone?

Jack Driscoll: Someone's got to stay on his trail while it's hot!

Carl Denham: Listen, there are dozens of girls in this town tonight that are in more danger than they'll ever see with me.

Jack Driscoll: Yeah, but they know that kind of danger.

Ann Darrow: Don't you think the skipper's a sweet old lamb?

Jack Driscoll: Ha ha ha! I'd hate to have him hear me say that!

Ann Darrow: I thought you didn't like woman?

Jack Driscoll: Yeah, but you're not woman.

Ann Darrow: Do you always take the pictures yourself?

Carl Denham: Ever since a trip I made to Africa. I'd have got a swell picture of a charging rhino, but the cameraman got scared. The darn fool, I was right there with a rifle! Seems he didn't trust me to get the rhino before it got him. I haven't fooled with a cameraman since; I do it myself.

Charles Weston: You never had a woman in any of your other pictures. Why do you want one in this?

Carl Denham: Holy mackerel, do you think I want to haul a woman around?

Charles Weston: Then why?

Carl Denham: Because the public, bless 'em, must have a pretty face.

Jack Driscoll: There's one thing we haven't thought of...

Police Lieutenant: What?

Jack Driscoll: Airplanes. If he should put Ann down, and they can fly close enough to pick him off without hitting her...

Police Lieutenant: You're right! Planes! Call the field!

Carl Denham: [Kong frantically shakes his chains] Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute; he thinks you're attacking the girl...

Reporter: Aw, let him roar, it's a swell picture...

Carl Denham: Wait a minute, what about Kong?

Jack Driscoll: Well, what about him?

Carl Denham: We can here to get a moving picture, and we've found something worth more than all the movies in the world!

Captain Englehorn: [incredulous] What?

Carl Denham: We've got those gas bombs. If we can capture him alive...

Jack Driscoll: Why, you're crazy. Besides that, he's on a cliff where a whole army couldn't get at him.

Carl Denham: Yeah, if he stays there...

[looks at Ann]

Carl Denham: but we've got something he wants.

Jack Driscoll: [holds Ann] Yeah. Something he won't get again.

Theatre Patron: I can't sit so close to the screen; it hurts my eyes.

Usher: This isn't a moving picture, ma'am.

Theatre Patron: What? But Mr. Denham makes those pictures with those darling lions and tigers and things.

Usher: This is more in the nature of a personal appearance, ma'am.

Theatre Patron: Well I never... thought I was gonna see something.

Carl Denham: Whaddaya think of that wall, Skipper?

Captain Englehorn: Colossal; might almost be Egyptian.

Carl Denham: Yeah, but what's on the other side of that wall; that's what I wanna find out.

Carl Denham: [the witch doctor has complained to the Chief] What's that?

Captain Englehorn: Must be the Witch Doctor. He says the ceremony is spoiled because we've seen it.

Carl Denham: Well, calm the old boy down! What's the word for friend?

Captain Englehorn: Bala.

Captain Englehorn: [moving toward the Chief, arms out and palms up] Bala; bala.

Skull Island nation leader: Punya!

Carl Denham: [protesting the agent's lack of confidence in the safety of Denham's voyage] You act as if I've never brought anybody back alive! Look at the Captain and first mate - - they've gone on several of my last missions, and they don't look any the worse for wear.

Jack Driscoll: [sarcastically, in wary half-hearted agreement with Denham's assertions] Yeah - - we're healthy!

Theatre Patron: Say, what's Denham got, anyway?

Another theatre patron: [in doubtful pre-disgust] Well, it better be good after all this ballyhoo!

[first lines]

Charles Weston: Say, is this the moving picture ship?

Watchman: The Venture? Yeah. Are you going on this crazy voyage?

Charles Weston: What's crazy about it?

Charlie: [offering native jewelry] Skipper, look what I find.

Captain Englehorn: A native bracelet!

Charlie: Crazy black man been here.

Carl Denham: Hey, wouldja' look at that...

Captain Englehorn: Natives running through the village.

Carl Denham: Yeah... looks like the night before election.

Ann Darrow: How many potatoes do you think you've peeled?

Charlie: Me go back to China, never see no more potatoes.

Member of Ship's Crew: Why don't the Old Man heave to till the fog lifts?

Member of Ship's Crew: Tain't the Old Man; it's that crazy guy Denham.