Joe Perko: "OK, Boan, how much you got here?"
Boan: "About eighteen hundred."
Joe Perko: "Eighteen hundred? What's going on?"
Boan: "There's Bagley."
Joe Perko: "Hey, Mr. Bagley! Something's haywire. They only loaded me enough pipe to push one test hole. Less than two thousand feet."
Roy Bagley: "Yeah, that'll be enough."
Boan: "Are you kidding? On Bagatan, we didn't come until we were past twenty-six thousand feet."
Roy Bagley: "You take my word, fellas. This hole proves out within two thousand, or it's a write-off."
[first lines]
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Fred Wilson: "Here's to the big one..."
[Wilson (with Bagley) toasting the anticipated oil strike]
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Jack Prescott: "From thy wedding with the creature who touches heaven, lady, God preserve thee."
[quoting eerie warning found in blood on the thwart of a boat]
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Dwan: "I'm Dwan...D-W-A-N, Dwan. That's my name. You know? Like Dawn except that I switched two letters...you know, to make it more memorable."
[Dwan after being rescued and brought aboard the Petrox Explorer]
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Wilson: "Hey, I'm a married man."
Prescott: "Guaranteed to make the cover of People Magazine."
Wilson: "Print just one."
[Prescott snapping pictures of Dwan hugging Wilson]
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Fred Wilson: "Let's not get eaten alive on this island,... bring the mosquito spray."
[steps out of the launch and onto the beach]
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Fred Wilson: "Jack, let me straighten you out on a couple of points. One, that wall is an ancient ruin. Two, this island is uninhabited."
[Loud drumming begins, coming from the direction of the wall]
Jack Prescott: "And three, there's an uninhabited German beer hall down there with a mechanical band."
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Dwan: "You mean it's bad luck for the bride to see the groom before the wedding?"
Prescott: "Yeah, ghastly luck, for the whole congregation."
[Prescott and Dwan secretly observing native sacrifice to Kong]
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Jack Prescott: "Kong! Kong! Kong! Kong! you heard them chant that! He exists. You saw the wall, right? Now who the hell do you think they're planning to give that girl to?"
Fred Wilson: "It's some nutty religion. A priest gets dressed up like an ape and gets laid."
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Fred Wilson: "Take plenty of TNT when you go inland. Any sign of a monkey bigger than four feet, send him bang-bang."
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Jack Prescott: "Even an environmental rapist like you wouldn't be asshole enough to destroy a unique new species of animal.
Fred Wilson: Bet me."
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Fred Wilson: "Yeah, unless he's gobbled her down completely."
[spectulating as to why the rescue party hasn't found any remains of Dwan]
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Fred Wilnson: "Any large furry blips seen headed in your direction, you will know."
[on radio to rescue party looking for Dwan]
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Carnahan: "If he's not gonna eat her, why did he take her?"
Jack Prescott: "Apes are highly territorial. He's probably gonna take her back to his turf."
Carnahan: "What for? Joe and the guys, uh, said that you said the ape was gonna marry her. Is that some kinda joke or did you really mean his huge"
Jack Prescott: "I don't know, Carnahan! Look, I'm just as ignorant about this as you are, so quit askin' me so many dumb questions, will ya?"
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Dwan:"I can't stand heights!"
[being picked up by Kong]
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Dwan [to Kong]: "You Goddamn chauvinist pig ape!"
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Jack Prescott: "There is a girl out there who might be running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape."
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Fred Wilson: "Look at that Exxon campaign, 'We'll put a tiger in your tank', it did a zillion dollars...with just a paper tiger!"
[deciding to capture Kong for a Petrox ad campaign]
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Capt. Ross: "There are six guys cut off in the jungle and you're building monkey traps. Hell, Wilson, you're playing with their lives!"
Wilson: "Don't worry about it, Cap."
[Wilson setting a trap for Kong at the native village]
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Dwan: "What is this, Kong. See if I forget. This thing's just never gonna work,... can't you see?"
[speaking to Kong at full-moon wedding]
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"Estimated monkey-time to your position, five minutes or less."
[Radar update over loud speaker at native village]
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Fred Wilson: "Lights! Camera! Kong!"
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Fred Wilson: "Yeah, tough to get him to do it."
[considering getting Kong to give away the bride if Dwan marries Prescott.]
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Dwan: "How can I become a star because of... because of someone who was stolen off that gorgeous island and locked up in that lousy oil tank?"
Fred Wilson: "Its not *someone*! Its an animal, a beast who tried to rape you."
Dwan: "That's not true. He risked his life to save me."
Fred Wilson: "He tried to rape you honey. And before you cry alot, you should ask the natives on that island what they thought of loosing Kong."
Jack Prescott: "Actually, they'll miss him alot."
Fred Wilson: "Like leprosy."
Jack Prescott: "No, you're dead wrong. He was the terror, the mystery of their lives, and the magic. In a year from now that will be an island full of burnt-out drunks. When we took Kong we kidnapped their god."
[Prescott arguing with Wilson about King Kong's value to the natives of Skull Island]
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Dwan: "God it's scary it's like there's a curse on all of us."
Fred Wilson: "Damn it! I'm tired of you trying to confuse this girl's mind! This is her big chance and yours too! You know there are stars in Princeton the same way there are in Hollywood Jack. You want out, you want me to cable Harvard or Yale and get Kong another keeper?"
Jack Prescott: "Coast to coast tours, beauty and the beast, that's a grotesque farce!"
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Dwan: "Remember when there was that blackout and all the babies were born exactly nine months later? Well, here's to all the future sons and daughters of King Kong."
[delivering a toast while Kong rampages through New York]
