Job quotes

“I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.”
Kyle Chandler

“- Ethan Hunt: So the key to crushing Lane is sitting in a computer, just waiting for someone to take it.
- Benji Dunn: So, why hasn't Lane just sent someone to steal it?
- Ilsa Faust: Oh, he has. He sent me. And I can tell you... it's impossible.”
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Simon Pegg - Benji Dunn
Rebecca Ferguson - Ilsa Faust

“I don't know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher; I just try everything I can think of.”

Orson Welles - Kane

“- Brother Timothy: Most people can't figure it out. My brother was the one who was supposed to have the vocation. Me, they had me written off as the bum. But here I am, wearing a robe, bouncing a ball off the steps of the rectory.
- Michael Dunn: Was your brother a bum?
- Brother Timothy: Sort of. Sells life insurance down in Maryland.”
John Heard - Brother Timothy
Andrew McCarthy - Michael Dunn

“- Emily: Were you available for rides while we were fucking?
- Kumail: Yeah, but I only looked a couple of times.”
Zoe Kazan - Emily
Kumail Nanjiani - Kumail

“You know what I do for a living? I get paid to notice stuff. I get paid to know who's lying.”
Harrison Ford - Dutch Van Den Broeck

“- Gas: I operated a gas station.
- Ted Pikul: You still operate a gas station, don't you?
- Gas: Only on the most pathetic level of reality.”

Willem Dafoe - Gas
Jude Law - Ted Pikul

If you want your own island and your boss says you gotta go out there and take a beating, you go out there, take it and come back to work and say, "do you need me to do it again?".
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block

“- Tracey Verna: Well nobody ever plans to end up in Vegas. You just do. Kinda sneaks up on you. But it is the fastest growing economy in the US, the economy is booming, business is growing, I'm up to my neck in paperwork. Oh, but frankly, it's not a whole lotta fun. Are you are whole lotta fun Alex?
- Alex Whitman: Ah, Jeff said we might have...” (continue)(continue reading)
Beth Broderick - Tracey Verna
Matthew Perry - Alex Whitman

“Well, you did your job, so I suppose I can't kill your wife. Although to be honest, I'd be doing the sighted world a favor.”
Terence Stamp - Siegfried

“- Porter: Would you like me to unpack for you, ma'am?
- P.L. Travers: Young man, if it is your ambition to handle ladies' garments, may I suggest you take employment in a launderette?”
Michael Swinehart - Porter
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“I find the key is to think of a day as units of time, each unit consisting of no more than thirty minutes. Full hours can be a little bit intimidating and most activities take about half an hour. Taking a bath: one unit, watching countdown: one unit, web-based research: two units, exercising: three units, having my hair carefully disheveled:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hugh Grant - Will Freeman

“The life of a repo man is always intense.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Bud

“- Rat Vendor - The French Revolution: Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, rat pies, or the ever-popular ratatouille.
- Nothing Vendor - The French Revolution: Nothing, I have absolutely nothing for sale!”

Jack Carter - Rat Vendor - The French Revolution
Jan Murray - Nothing Vendor - The French Revolution

“- Elektra King: What do you do to survive?
- James Bond: I take pleasure - and great beauty.”
Sophie Marceau - Elektra King
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Max: I can't drive you around while you're killing folks. It ain't my job!
- Vincent: Tonight it is.”
Jamie Foxx - Max
Tom Cruise - Vincent

“- Frank Catton: You can fire no waitress based on appearance. Man that's just unconstitutional.
- Danny Ocean: If they were waitress.
- Linus Caldwell: Yeah, they're actually hired as 'models who serve' so that Bank can monitor their physical appearance.
- Rusty Ryan: It's a cruel, cruel practice.”
Bernie Mac - Frank Catton
George Clooney - Danny Ocean
Matt Damon - Linus Caldwell
Brad Pitt - Rusty Ryan

“- Passenger #1: Can't we have some fun?
- Passenger #2: We've had champagne and we're happy...
- Driver - Paris: No, you don't have fun in my taxi! It's my place of business, not your fucking playground!”
Pascal N'Zonzi - Passenger #1
Emile Abossolo M'bo - Passenger #2
Isaach De Bankolé - Driver - Paris

“The best jobs are the ones nobody even knows you were there.”
Jason Statham - Arthur Bishop

“You were his boss Gene, not his father.”

Patricia Kalember - Cynthia

“If you're not in trouble you're not doing your job.”
Melissa McCarthy - Mullins

“I coulda been a fisherman. Fishermen, they get up, they fish, they sell fish, they smelt fish. Reminds me of this girl I used to go with, Yvonne, she smelled like fish.”
Andrew Dice Clay - Ford Fairlane

“Killing someone we know nothing about. I don't know if I can do that.”

James McAvoy - Wesley

“Even if you find one that has money and means to drill, he'll maybe know nothing about drilling and he'll have to hire the job out on contract, and then you're depending on a contractor who'll rush the job through so he can get another contract just as quick as he can. This is... the way that this works.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview

Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement - Tracy Lord. Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania. Married on impulse and divorced in a rage. And always unapproachable by the press. "The Unapproachable Miss Lord", "The Philadelphia Story".

Henry Daniell - Sidney Kidd