33 Movie Quotes about Primitive (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 30, 2025

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

1 But why Earth, Jor-El? They're primitives thousands of years behind us.

Marlon Brando as Jor El in Superman (1978)

2 Now is the age of the barbarians.

Humphrey Bogart as Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)

3 Your type of woman bores me! Give me the simple primitive woman, the woman of long silences...!

James Stewart in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

4 That's just my point. Here, there is no civilisation. -Then we have the opportunity to introduce it.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson; William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

5 What kind of primitive beasts are responsible for this mess?

Rosie ODonnell as Terk in Tarzan (1999)

6 Give me the simple primitive woman, the woman of long silences, consuming in love, enduring in marriage. -Yes, sir! Me, too.

James Stewart in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

7 Give me the simple primitive woman, the woman of long silences... -Well, I'm only a publisher, but I'll see what I can do.

James Stewart in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

8 Besides, we come from different worlds. You are primitive, and you follow your baser instincts.

Matthew Perry as Leslie Edwards in Almost Heroes (1998)

9 We can teach these barbarians a lesson in Western methods and efficiency that will put them to shame.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

10 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

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