“- Jay: You don't remember me, but we used to work together...
- Kay: I never worked in a funeral home.”
Will Smith - Jay
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay

“When I got back from Spain, I got into accounting. I figured I could hide behind a desk. I looked down, and I didn't so much as look up for a whole year. When I finally did, people weren't staring at me anymore. I guess they kind of forgot about it.”

Kevin Bacon - Jack Morris

“- Gia Carangi: People keep going away from me, that hurts.
- Francesco: Work. You have a gift, use it. Life, life will be there later. When you have worked, and you have lived, and you know who you are, life is easy. Work. It's the only answer I know.”
Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi
Edmund Genest - Francesco

“If he had any self respect, he'd work for a living.”
William H. Macy - Tim Sullivan

“- Grace Faraday: Where have you been all my miserable life ?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Drinking.
- Grace Faraday: That's no profession.”
Emma Stone - Grace Faraday
Ryan Gosling - Sgt. Jerry Wooters