Tradition quotes

“Eyes down. Don't smile. Indian bride never smiles. You'll ruin the bloody video.”
Tanveer Ghani - Video Man

“I think maybe I should mention before you make any faux pas here, that we have a tradition in this family, we don't kill other people.”
Don McKellar - Patrick Wheeler

“- Belle: Chip, you must know about Christmas! Stockings in front of the fire. Tree? Tinsle? Presents?
- Chip: Presents! Will I get one?
- Belle: Of course, everyone gets a present on Christmas.”
Paige O'Hara - Belle
Haley Joel Osment - Chip

“Ladies and gentlemen, and invited transgendered species. In my study of Terran and Betazoid conjugal rites, I have discovered it is traditional to present the happy couple with a gift.”

Brent Spiner - Data

“- Jesminder 'Jess' Kaur Bhamra: I'm sorry I missed that penalty, coach.
- Joe: It's okay, losing to the Jerries on penalties comes natural to you English. You're part of tradition now!”
Parminder Nagra - Jesminder 'Jess' Kaur Bhamra
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - Joe

“You're a Coalwood boy! You get down there, get that shovel in your hands, coaldust on your neck, feel just as natural as a tick on a dog.”
David Dwyer - Jake Mosby

“- Fezzik: You never said anything about killing anyone.
- Vizzini: I've hired you to help me start a war. It's an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition.”
André the Giant - Fezzik
Wallace Shawn - Vizzini

“- Jack Skellington: We pick up an oversized sock, and hang it like this on the wall...
- Mr. Hyde: Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?
- Smaller Mr. Hyde: Let me see, let me look.
- Smallest Mr. Hyde: Is it rotted and covered with gook?”

Danny Elfman - Jack Skellington
Randy Crenshaw - Mr. Hyde

“- Randolph Johnson: 300 years ago, my people only had to spend one day a week gathering food, and everybody ate like kings.
- Jesse: So what'd they do the rest of the time?
- Randolph Johnson: Told stories, made music, made carvings. Made babies.
- Jesse: Sounds good to me.”
August Schellenberg - Randolph Johnson
Jason James Richter - Jesse

“- Chief Carl Brashear: Forgive me sir, but to me, the Navy isn't a business. It's an organization of people who represent the finest aspects of our nation. We have many traditions. In my career, I have encountered most of them. Some are good, some not so good. I would, however not be here today were it not for our greatest tradition of all.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. - Chief Carl Brashear
David Conrad - Capt. Hanks

“- Molly Bell: Honey what happened? What was that all about?
- Jess Robin: When a Jew mourns somebody dead, they tear a piece of their clothing.
- Molly Bell: Who's dead?
- Jess Robin: I am.”
Lucie Arnaz - Molly Bell
Neil Diamond - Jess Robin

“Nice Greek girls who don't find a husband, work in the family restaurant. So here I am, day after day, year after year, thirty and way past my expiration date.”
Nia Vardalos - Toula Portokalos

“A king fears tradition more than he does assassination. There is a chance for me to escape assassination but not tradition. It's one of the unfortunate things connected with being King.”
Louis Hayward - Philippe of Gascony

“- Belle: It's a wonderful tradition. One log is chosen, and everyone in the house touches it and makes a Christmas wish.
- Beast: Wishes are stupid.”
Paige O'Hara - Belle
Robby Benson - Beast

“I'm sick of these conventional marriages. One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather.”
Groucho Marx - Captain Jeffrey Spaulding

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen - Harry Block

“These men have taken a supreme vow of celibacy, like their fathers, and their fathers before them.”
Charlie Sheen - Topper Harley

“- Prince Akeem: So, you would share your bed, and your fortune, with a beautiful fool?
- Semmi: That is the way it has always been with men of power. It is tradition.”
Eddie Murphy - Prince Akeem
Arsenio Hall - Semmi

“Archer enjoyed such challenges to convention. He questioned conformity in private; but, in public, he upheld family and tradition. This was a world balanced so precariously that it's harmony could be shattered by a whisper.”
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“It's part of the wedding. No Sicilian can ever refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day.”
Robert Duvall - Tom Hagen

“To put out fire. That is the crusade of the bombardiers, who are already building a great American tradition - a hundred thousand strong!”

Eugene L. Eubank - General Eubank

“- Japanese Waiter: Please, take off your shoes.
- Donnie Brasco: Are you kiddin’ me? Take off your pants, what the fuck is that?”
Keenan Shimizu - Japanese Maitre D'
Johnny Depp - Donnie Brasco

“There are certain things in life that are sacred - sagradas - and we don't spit on them. Because, without them, it doesn't matter whether we live or die. Marriage is something that we don't spit on.”
Jenny Gago - Maria

- Sawyer: Look, tiger. This town has rules. Around here cats say, "Meow".
- Danny: But that's so old hat. I'm sure no one would mind if I jazzed this up a bit.
Jasmine Guy - Sawyer
Scott Bakula - Danny

“Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs, and by the dangerous manner in which he has persistently attacked the American traditions of private property, initiative, and opportunity for advancement, is in fact, nothing more or less than a Communist!”

George Coulouris - Walter Parks Thatcher