Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Quotes: « Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: [testing Lewis's assertion that the apes can speak] What is your name? » « Dr. Zira: Zira. » « Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: One might as well be talking to a parrot. » « Dr. Zira: A parrot? » « Chairman of the President's Committee of Inquiry: What did I tell you? Mechanical mimicry. Unique in an ape, vocally, without a doubt, but… does the other one talk? » « Cornelius: Only when she lets me. » « Cornelius: They became alert to the concept of slavery. And, as their numbers grew, to slavery's antidote which, of course, is unity. At first, they began assembling in small groups. They learned the art of corporate and militant action. They learned to refuse. At first, they just grunted their refusal. But then, on an historic day, which is commemorated by my species and fully documented in the sacred scrolls, there came Aldo. He did not grunt. He articulated. He spoke a word which had been spoken to him time without number by humans. He said 'No.' » [as part of an intelligence test, Zira builds a stairway out of blocks to reach a hanging banana; and then after climbing the stairway, just sits beneath it staring] « Dr. Stephanie Branton: Well why doesn't she take it? » « Dr. Zira: Because I loathe bananas! »