Culture quotes
85 culture quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines- From the movie: The History Boys
“- Timms: I don't always understand poetry!
- Hector: You don't always understand it? Timms, I never understand it. But learn it now, know it now and you will understand it... whenever.” - From the movie: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
“- Maria Portokalos: It's a cake! I know! Thank you! Thank you very, very much.
- Maria Portokalos: [whispering to Aunt Freida] There's a hole in this cake!” - From the movie: Seven Years in Tibet
“A man who betrays his culture shouldn't preach about its customs. There was a time I would have wished you dead but your shame will be your torture and your torture will be your life. I wish it to be long.”
- From the movie: The Rains Came
“I was brought up in the hills, where charity is a sign of weakness.”
- From the movie: Gran Torino
“- Sue: Some Hmong people tend to smile or grin, when they're yelled at. It's a cultural thing, it expresses embarrassment or insecurity. It's not that they're laughing at you or anything.
- Walt Kowalsky: Right, you people are nuts.” - La trovi in Career in Cinema
“I have always had a great curiosity for different cultures and am always open to new experiences, so I always listen to any proposals from any country and for any budget.”
- From the animation: Atlantis: The Lost Empire
“We were once a great people. Now we live in ruins. The kings of our past would weep if they could see how far we have fallen.”
- From the movie: The Coca-Cola Kid
“- Becker: Well, you tell me. Is that the Australian sound? I mean do we have the Australian sound here?
- Kim: I'd say that's easily as Australian as... well, a barbed-wire canoe. As Australian as... a shit sandwich.” - From the movie: City Hall
“- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: You keep looking at that thing as if it weren't kosher.
- Abe Goodman: A cut of meat is kosher. A piece of fish, savory foods, and all kinds of dang things are kosher, but a probation report is not kosher. A probation report is merely a probation report.” - From the movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
“- Kate Veatch: I'm fine. I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
- White Goodman: In some cultures, they only eat vomit. I never been there, but I read about it... in a book.” - From the movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets
“- The president: Even if something like that really did exist, why do you think I would actually just give it to you?
- Ben Gates: Because it will probably lead us to the discovery of the greatest Native-American treasure of all time; a huge piece of culture lost. You can give that history back to its descendants. And because you're the...” (continue)(continue reading) - From the movie: Dangerous Beauty
- From the movie: Eurotrip
“There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“I don't like 'popular.'”
- La trovi in Actors and Politics
“Europe is not united by its economy but rather by its culture, its diversity and culture.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.”
- La trovi in Celebrities on other topics
“English culture is highly literary-based.”
- From the movie: Planet of the Apes
“Everything in the human culture takes place below the waist!”
- From the movie: Elizabethtown
“I teach my kids about the things that really matter. I will teach them about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zandt, because they are equally important in my house.”
- From the movie: Gone Baby Gone
“I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished.”
- From the movie: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
“- Judy Witwicky: Look at this place! I feel smarter already! Can you smell that?
- Ron Witwicky: Yeah, smells like $40,000 a year.” - From the movie: The Longest Yard
“I know how you white boys always deal with that depression. I don't understand what you white boys are all depressed about. Hey, you're white! Smile!”
“- Dr. Kurtz: There's your sacrifice. If you wish to become a piranha woman you must first take his body, and then his life. What is your decision?
- Dr. Margo Hunt: I refuse to kill another human being in cold blood. However, in deference to your cultural traditions, I would be willing to have sex with him.
- Dr. Kurtz: Forget it! You want your...” (continue)(continue reading)- From the movie: Full Metal Jacket
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