Job quotes
1084 job quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines“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.”
- From the movie: Clue
“- 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) - From the movie: The American President
“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)
- From the movie: Cinema Paradiso
“Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt.”
- From the movie: Wonder Woman
“- 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.” - From the movie: The Founder
“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)
- La trovi in Insults
“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.”
- From the movie: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
“- Rey: You're offering me a job?
- Han Solo: I'm considering it.” - From the movie: Spy
“- Rick Ford: I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with this fuckin' arm.
- Susan Cooper: I don't know that that's possible... I mean medically...” “There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm concerned.”
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.”
- From the movie: The Intern
“Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.”
- From the movie: The Untouchables
- From the movie: Zoolander
- 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) - From the movie: High School Musical 2
“- 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?” - From the movie: Dave
- From the movie: Haywire
- From the movie: Broken Arrow
“- 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?” - From the movie: Snowden
“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)
- La trovi in Motivational Quotes
“I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.”
- From the movie: History of the World, Part I
“- 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) - La trovi in Career in Cinema
“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.”
- La trovi in Career in Cinema
“If Hollywood didn't work out I was all prepared to be the best secretary in the world.”
- From the movie: About Last Night...
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