“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.” YearsHas BeensTodayCoursesWaitingInterestWonderfulMinutesKingsActressesGiantsApesKing Kong Author:David Letterman
“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.” RealSometimesBigsBeautifulEmotionSweetKingsUglyRiotRefinedPercussionKing Kong Author:Evelyn Glennie
“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.” YoungKingsAdultsExtraordinaryMalesMythologyGentlenessWildlifeKing Kong Book:Gorillas in the Mist Source: Gorillas in the Mist
“You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.” ThinkingMeanJobsTurnsBearsKingsNeededNewsClassicGood JobBad NewsRemakesUpdatesKing KongClassic Movie Author:Carly Schroeder
“King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.” LoveKingsOperaPhantomsLooking For LoveKing KongCount Dracula Author:Mason Cooley
“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.” UsedCitiesNew YorkKingsDestructionTiredGoldenDestroyedBridgesGatesDestroyingLegendsRomeAnimationSan FranciscoOutletsVery PopularKing KongGolden Gate Bridge Author:Ray Harryhausen
“Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.” ThinkingMindBodyHappensKingsWeightYour BodyHandleLiftsInjuryKing Kong Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.” FirstsCarKingsBiggerVariousSunsetAdsFrighteningGazingKing Kong Author:Rebecca Pidgeon
“I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.” EndsDarkKingsDepressingKing Kong Author:Petra Haden
“I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.” KnowsYearsFirstsTogetherSongStageKingsFirst TimeAlbumsRhymeGodzillaKing Kong Author:Bone Crusher
“I made a life-size drawing of King Kong's head which was about eight feet-by- six feet. I tried to measure the head (scaled to other things in the movie I could estimate the size of) that was in the movie in the early '30s, and I liked that I was making something "life-size" that was kind of a fictional thing.” KindMadeFeetKingsSixSizeEightDrawingKing KongLife Size Author:Jason Polan
“I want to make movies just like "King Kong." You know, dinosaurs, big gorillas - it's everything that a nine year-old boy would fall in love with.” KnowsWantYearsBigsFallBoysKingsFalling In LoveNineDinosaursNine YearsGorillasKing Kong Author:Peter Jackson
“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.” LittlesMadeFilmGuyFallRealizingKingsAffectedKing Kong Author:Peter Jackson
“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.” WayMeanMadeCoursesKingsTradeSlaveMetaphorMakersSlave TradeKing Kong Author:Quentin Tarantino
“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."” FirstsMeanSaidAmericaBlackTalkingSawsMinesKingsMalesMetaphorObviousVersionsPeterBlack MalesKing Kong Author:Quentin Tarantino
“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.” RealStudyMovementPlanetsKingsApesCaptivityChimpanzeesGorillasKing KongNotary Author:Andy Serkis
“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.” ThinkingMenWonderKingsIslandsKing Kong Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I've always loved King Kong. He's like a modern-day myth, an icon of the cinema.” ModernKingsMythCinemaIconsModern DayKing Kong Author:Tom Hiddleston