Boss quotes

“- Lew Hayward: I was a captain of industry; feared by men, adored by women.
- Frank Cross: Adored! Come on, let's be honest, Lew. You paid for the women!”
John Forsythe - Lew Hayward
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.”
Christopher Walken - Frank White

“- Casey Ryback: What made you flip like this?
- William Strannix: I got tired of coming up with last-minute desperate solutions to impossible problems created by other fucking people.
- Casey Ryback: All of your ridiculous pitiful antics aren't gonna change a thing. You and me, we're puppets in the same sick game. We serve the same master, and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steven Seagal - Casey Ryback
Tommy Lee Jones - William Strannix

“That’s what being a boss is. You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it’s smooth. Sometimes you hit the rocks.”
Dominic Chianese - Junior Soprano

“- Leo Dalcò: You are a lucky boy, Olmo. You are.
- Olmo as a Child: Why?
- Leo Dalcò: Why? It took me 73 years to see a landlord working.”
Sterling Hayden - Leo Dalcò
Roberto Maccanti - Olmo as a Child

“- Giselle Levy: Whatever you do, don't put the boss's wife next to your husband.
- Betty Warren: Why not?
- Giselle Levy: She's screwing him.”

Maggie Gyllenhaal - Giselle Levy
Kirsten Dunst - Betty Warren

“- Captain Richard Phillips: You had thirty thousand dollars, and a way to Somalia. It wasn't enough?
- Muse: I got bosses. They got rules.
- Captain Richard Phillips: We all got bosses.”
Tom Hanks - Captain Richard Phillips
Barkhad Abdi - Muse

“We were all working at pretty terrible jobs for some awful bosses and we just thought, if we ever got a chance to be our own bosses, that we'd do things differently.”
Jason Bateman - Nick Hendricks

“Never become more popular than the boss, unless you intend to sack him.”
Ian McNeice - Baron Vladimir Harkonnen

“- Bobo Justus: Did I buy you that dress you piece of shit?
- Lilly Dillon: Well I guess so, you're the guy I work for.”
Pat Hingle - Bobo Justus
Anjelica Huston - Lilly Dillon

“I don't care what nobody say. I'm the boss. You understand? I'm the boss around here. I do the only saying what counts.”

Denzel Washington - Troy Maxson

“- Neal: Everybody has to work for somebody. Even Michelangelo had to please the Pope.
- Vincent Eastman: The Pope didn't ask for parking space.”
Martin Landau - Neal
Richard Tiffany Gere - Vincent Eastman

“We're known each other a long time. On one hand I'm your friend, on the other I'm your boss. Now as your friend, you don't follow orders. You're unmanageable. Hell, you don't even obey the law, and you don't think before you act. And now as your boss, you're fired.”

Bruce McGill - Frank Daniels

“- Jeanie: Let me call Kevin.
- Nick Campbell: Jeanie... I'm sure your boyfriend's a great guy, but I'm not ready to work for someone who spent all of last Thanksgiving explaining the meaning of his tattoo.”
Ashlee Heath - Jeanie
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell

“Julio don't work for nobody. His boss had an accident, he fell on a knife four times.”
Joe Pantoliano - Snake

“- Barney Rubble: So, Fred, what am I gonna call you now? Boss? Chief?
- Fred Flintstone: No, simply Your Highness will do.”

Rick Moranis - Barney Rubble
John Goodman - Fred Flintstone

“Hoke, I want you to understand something. Now, you'd be working for me. She can say anything she likes, but she can't fire you. You understand?”

Dan Aykroyd - Boolie Werthan

A big boss must have a vision. We gotta town with thousands of small stores and businesses. People are working real hard. I think they should be working real hard. For us. Because we are for the people. "And if you ain't for the people, you can't buy the people". Lincoln.
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

“- John Smith: Does your boss have a first name?
- Lucy Kolinski: Only in the bedroom.”
Bruce Willis - John Smith
Alexandra Powers - Lucy Kolinski

“- Brantley Foster: At least I didn't sleep with the boss.
- Christy Wills: No, you slept with the boss's wife!”
Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster
Helen Slater - Christy Wills

“- Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright: I didn't hear you.
- Glen Waddell: Don't you sass me. Don't you dare sass me. You think just 'cause your aunt died, you can talk to me like that? You're in my house, now. I am the boss of my house. Do you understand that?”

Jena Malone - Ruth Anne 'Bone' Boatwright
Ron Eldard - Glen Waddell

“Geoff Mullens' the boss, but I'm better lookin'.”
Steve Bisley - Gordon Farkas

“- Rika Van Den Haas: Rudd's hiding behind his diplomatic credentials, isn't he?
- Martin Riggs: He's not a very good guy, your boss.
- Rika Van Den Haas: Then whatever he's doing, he shouldn't get away with it.”
Patsy Kensit - Rika Van Den Haas
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“- Sammy: Terry, I fucked my boss.
- Terry: What?
- Sammy: And his wife is six months pregnant...
- Terry: Jesus Christ, Sammy!
- Sammy: I know... I know...”
Laura Linney - Sammy
Mark Ruffalo - Terry

“As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am fucking fired!”
Cary Elwes - John Houseman