Job quotes

“I do take lots of time off between projects, but when the right thing comes along, I don't like to turn it down.”
Bill Pullman

“It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks.”
Jeremy Piven

“I feel a little guilty only being an actor.”
Blythe Danner

“I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.”
Michael Rooker

“Five months in Vietnam, and my best friend is a V.C.. This will not look good on a résumé!”
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.”
Rachel Weisz

“Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.”
Brad Dourif

“It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.”
Joe Pantoliano

“But my first jobs were acting jobs.”
James Coburn

“- Doug MacRay: We're fucked if we see a helicopter, we're fucked if we see SWAT. We see a cruiser, stop, take out the engine blocks, keep movin'. No one needs to get hurt.
- James Coughlin: Yeah, these guards like to test you, though. They wanna get hurt for ten dollars an hour, don't get in the way.”
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay
Jeremy Renner - James Coughlin

“- Ker: I don't know what you're so down about. You still get to be head of security, which, from what I can tell, is a pretty cushy job.
- Terl: Well, I can assure you that I was not groomed since birth to have some cushy job that even a moron like you could perform. While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Forest Whitaker - Ker
John Travolta - Terl

“I vowed I would never do a commercial, or a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.”
Kevin Kline

“- Benny: What do you want to be? Are you gonna be like a farmer or something?
- Marcus: I guess I could be a farmer.
- Benny: Yeah, I wanted to be a cop. But now that we steal so much, it's probably not a good idea.”
Carlo Alban - Benny
Brendan Sexton III - Marcus

- Nolan Traynor: We can get other jobs.
- Amanda Shelton: Sure, we can take out an add. We can afford it. "Situation wanted: shitty chef and sous chef seek restaurant to ruin".
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. - Nolan Traynor
Sarah Michelle Gellar - Amanda Shelton

“Baseball may be a religion full of magic, cosmic truth, and the fundamental ontological riddles of our time, but it's also a job.”
Susan Sarandon - Annie Savoy

“- Brian: You're offering me a job?
- Doug: Uh huh.
- Brian: The waitresses hate me!
- Doug: You wait till you've given them crabs. Then you'll really know hatred.”
Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“- Jimmy the Cheese Man: Waiting tables is what you know. Making cheese is what I know. Let's stay with what we know here.
- Paulie: You know about making cheese? Not for nothin', Jimmy, but my mother sent me over a hunk of mozzarella from your place last week, it was no big bargain. Tough, that mozzarella and it ain't the first time I've noticed...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joe Grifasi - Jimmy the Cheese Man
Eric Roberts - Paulie

“- Grocer: And after we do your job, we're gonna do another little job.
- Martin Q. Blank: Tell me about it.
- Grocer: Like I'm gonna put a bullet hole in your fuckin' forehead, and I'm gonna fuck the brain hole!
- Martin Q. Blank: Nice talk, sugar mouth.”
Dan Aykroyd - Grocer
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“What are you sayin, Pop? That because I'm a greasy immigrant, all I can do is clean fish? That ain't enough! I got a right to find work that uses my brain!”

Christian Slater - Charlie 'Lucky' Luciano

“- Jake Taylor: I'll let you know if I land a good job, I'm sure you're real concerned about it.
- Tom: Well, I just wanted Lynn to know what she would have had ahead of her.
- Tom: Stay away from her.
- Jake Taylor: Suck my dick!”

Tom Berenger - Jake Taylor
Richard Pickren - Tom

“What I do requires a certain mindset. I do assignments; designated targets. Some jobs need to look like accidents. Others must cast suspicion on someone else.”
Jason Statham - Arthur Bishop

“If you fire him, some of these people will leave. I don't know if we'd still have a magazine at the end of the day.”

Mark Blum - Lewis Estridge

“- Nora: I found a rehearsal partner. So now I won't miss a beat when Andrew gets back.
- Nora's Mom: Your applications arrived from Cornell and Brown. I put them on your bed.
Remember our deal, Nora. If you don't get a job from the showcase you go to school in the fall.”
Jenna Dewan Tatum - Nora Clark
Deirdre Lovejoy - Nora's Mom

“My dad worked 364 days a year, only took Thanksgiving off, and from age 8 to 18, the only time I could hang out with my parents was by staying late. ”
Justin Lin

“I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.”
Vincente Minnelli