85 Movie Quotes about Customs (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Oct 13, 2025

Memorable quotes about customs, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Young man, you must be new here. It is our custom to scalp the dead so that their spirits can't come back to haunt people.

Quote from Kung Fu from Beyond the Grave

22 These people are primitive. Things that are natural to them might shock and horrify you.

Edith Barrett as Mrs. Rand in I Walked with a Zombie

23 Your pardon. I dislike to be touched. An Eastern prejudice.

Boris Karloff as Imhotep in The Mummy (1932)

24 Well, if these are your customers, I'm not so sure I'll take this job.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

25 You know, Jack, back where I come from, they have this quaint old custom. Well, when a guy makes up his mind to marry a girl, he asks her. It's called proposing. -It's the same here. -Did I miss it?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

26 That is the Roman way.

Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

27 In pagan times, however, these dances were not simply picturesque jigs. They were frenzied rites ending in a sacrifice by which the dancers hoped desperately to win over the goddess of the fields.

Edward Woodward as Sgt. Neil Howie in The Wicker Man (1973)

28 That's the way it's always been with men of power. It's tradition.

Arsenio Hall in Coming to America (1988)

29 Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

30 Dishonor will come to the family. Traditional values will disintegrate.

Ming-Na Wen as Fa Mulan in Mulan (1998)

85 Movie Quotes about Customs (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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