“- Joanna: You know, forks were invented so that man could at least make a pretense of separating himself from the apes.
- Dean Proffitt: So were thumbs.”
Goldie Hawn - Joanna
Kurt Russell - Dean Proffitt

“Even in most primitive man, the need to create was part of his nature. This need, this talent clearly separated early man from animals, who would never know this gift.”
Orson Welles - Narrator (voice)

“It's not wolves, it's Wolfen. For 20,000 years Wilson, ten times your fucking Christian era, the skins and wolves and the great hunting nations, lived together, nature in balance. Then the slaughter came.”
Edward James Olmos - Eddie Holt

“By the time the plague was contained, man was without pets. Of course, for man this was intolerable. I mean, he might kill his brother, but he could not kill his dog!”
Roddy McDowall - Cornelius

“I do know this: One of the reasons for man's original downfall was your peculiar habit of murdering one another. Man destroys man. Apes do not destroy apes.”
Roddy McDowall - Cornelius