Job quotes

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
Sophia Loren

“Somewhere in Libya right now, a janitor's working the night shift at Libyan Intelligence Headquarters. He's going about doing his job... because he has no idea, in about an hour he's going to die in a massive explosion. He's just going about his job, because he has no idea that about an hour ago I gave an order to have him killed. You've just...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt.”

Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“- Etta Candy: I'm introducing myself. It's Etta Candy. I'm Steve Trevor's secretary.
- Diana Prince: What is a secretary?
- Etta Candy: Oh, well, I do everything. I go where he tells me to go, I do what he tells me to do.
- Diana Prince: Well, where I'm from that's called slavery.
- Etta Candy: I really like her.”
Lucy Davis - Etta
Gal Gadot - Diana

“I'm looking for a few good men... and women. Who aren't afraid of hard work. Aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves. I'm looking for scrappers, hustlers, guys that are willing to roll up their sleeves. They're livin' on drive, they got a little fire in their belly. I stand right here before you today, I'm gonna offer you something as precious as...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc

“- Miss Scarlet: Do you miss him?
- Mrs. White: Well, it's a matter of life after death. Now that he's dead, I have a life.
- Wadsworth: But, he was your second husband. Your first husband also disappeared.
- Mrs. White: But that was his job. He was an illusionist.
- Wadsworth: But he never reappeared!
- Mrs. White: He wasn't a very good...” (continue)(continue reading)

Lesley Ann Warren - Miss Scarlet
Madeline Kahn - Mrs. White
Tim Curry - Wadsworth

“I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying 'Shucks, I ain't no actor—I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant.' If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.”
Humphrey Bogart On Gary Cooper, John Wayne

“- Rey: You're offering me a job?
- Han Solo: I'm considering it.”
Daisy Ridley - Rey
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.”
Heath Ledger

“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“Retirement is an ongoing, relentless effort in creativity. You can try yoga, like to cook, bought some plants, took classes in Mandarin. Believe me, I've tried everything. I just know there's a hole in my life and I need to fill it... soon.”

Robert De Niro - Ben

“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
Spencer Tracy

“You just fulfilled the first rule of law enforcement: make sure when your shift is over you go home alive.”
Sir Sean Connery - Jim Malone

- Derek Zoolander: Well I guess it all started the first time I went through the second grade. I caught my reflection in a spoon while I was eating my cereal, and I remember thinking "wow, you're ridiculously good looking, maybe you could do that for a career".
- Matilda Jeffries: Do what for a career?
- Derek Zoolander: Be professionally good... (continue)(continue reading)

Ben Stiller - Derek Zoolander
Christine Taylor - Matilda Jeffries

“- Troy Bolton: Your summer activities consultant has arrived.
- Gabriella Montez: Hopefully some of those activities will include a job.
- Troy Bolton: Hey, whatever happens, as long as we're together, it's cool, right?”
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton
Vanessa Hudgens - Gabriella Montez

“I forgot that I was hired to do a job for you and that it was just a temp job at that. I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little better and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

“I like the idea of me doing my job more than the idea of someone else doing my job.”
Antonio Banderas - Rodrigo

“- Giles Prentice: Aviation Week is gonna run a story, everyone's gonna know what really happened, and we're all gonna look extremely stupid. We're better off just telling the truth.
- Secretary of Defense Baird: The truth? How'd you get this job?”
Frank Whaley - Giles Prentice
Kurtwood Smith - Secretary of Defense Baird

“You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren't that long ago. Yeah, well, the big shots were the first trial, but then the next trial were just the judges, and lawyers, and policemen, and guards, and ordinary people just doing their jobs, following orders. That's where we got the Nuremberg principles, which then the UN made into...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Edward Snowden

“I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.”
Morten Tyldum

“- Dole Office Clerk: Occupation?
- Gladiator - The Roman Empire: Gladiator.
- Dole Office Clerk: Did you kill last week?
- Gladiator - The Roman Empire: No.
- Dole Office Clerk: Did you try to kill last week?
- Gladiator - The Roman Empire: Yeah.
- Dole Office Clerk: Now, listen, this is your last week of unemployment insurance. Either you kill...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bea Arthur - Dole Office Clerk
Jim Steck - Gladiator - The Roman Empire

“I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.”
Wes Craven

“If Hollywood didn't work out I was all prepared to be the best secretary in the world.”
Bette Davis

“- Joan: Deborah, you work in advertising... a civilized business. I on the other hand work with monsters.
- Debbie: You're talking about 5-year-olds!
- Joan: Right! and my job is to break their spirit. That is what kindergarten is all about. The Germans invented it, think about it.”
Elizabeth Perkins - Joan
Demi Moore - Debbie

- 1st Interviewer: Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application?
- Spud: No! Uh. Yes. Only to get my foot in the door. Showing initiative and that like.
- 1st Interviewer: But you were referred here by the department of employment, there was no need for you to get your "foot in the door", as you put it.
- Spud: Ehhh... cool.... (continue)(continue reading)

Ewen Bremner - Spud