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.

Carl Denham: Don't be alarmed, ladies and gentlemen. Those chains are made of chrome steel.

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.

Charlie: [after finding a native bracelet on the deck of the ship] All hand on deck! Everybody on deck! Everybody on deck! All hand on deck! Everybody on deck! Everybody on deck!

Jack Driscoll: [to Ann] Say... I think I love you.

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.

Jack Driscoll: [to Ann] Hey... I guess I love you.

Carl Denham: Throw your arms across your eyes and scream, Ann. Scream for your life!

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 - I'm going out and make the greatest picture in the world. Something that nobody's ever seen or heard of. They'll have to think up a lot of new adjectives when I come back.

Carl Denham: It's money and adventure and fame. It's the thrill of a lifetime and a long sea voyage that starts at six o'clock tomorrow morning.

Ann Darrow: Do you always take the pictures you sell?

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.

Jack Driscoll: One thing we haven't thought of...

Police Lieutenant: What?

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

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

Carl Denham: [chasing after sailor] Hey, come back with those bombs, you s...

Carl Denham: Wait a minute - we can here to make a picture, and we've found something worth more than all the pictures in the world!

Captain Englehorn: [incredulous] What?

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, and something he isn't gonna get again.

Usher: 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: [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!

[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?