Job quotes

“- Dekker Massey: I'd spent 20 years behind a desk.
- Gus Green: That's a long time to be sitting.”
Nick Brimble - Dekker Massey
Danny Glover - Gus Green

“- Julian Marty: I got a job for you.
- Private Detective Loren Visser: Uh, well, if the pay's right, and it's legal, I'll do it.
- Julian Marty: It's not strictly legal.
- Private Detective Loren Visser: Well, if the pay's right, I'll do it.”
Dan Hedaya - Julian Marty
M. Emmet Walsh - Private Detective Loren Visser

“- Joanna: You're gonna get another job?
- Peter: I don't think I'd like another job.
- Joanna: Well, what are you going to do about money and bills and...
- Peter: You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either.”
Jennifer Aniston - Joanna
Ron Livingston - Peter

“My aunt was in the restaurant business all her life. There's no way in hell a career waitress comes to work in high heels. She'd have blisters the size of pancakes before lunch.”

Vin Diesel - Xander Cage

“I'm not after your job, Marty. I'm after the man who tried to kill my family.”
Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan

“Boys, the honeymoon's over. From now on you're marines.”
William Bendix - Pvt. Aloysius K. "Smacksie" Randall

“I think directing a movie is the best job ever created, but Marilyn has cured me of ever wanting to do it again.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Sir Laurence Olivier

“- Annie Banks: He's an independent communications consultant.
- George Banks: Independent?
- Annie Banks: Yes.
- George Banks: That's code for unemployed!”
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Annie Banks
Steve Martin - George Banks

“- Bo Richards: What a screwy job.
- Roy Alston: Our jobs are better.
- Bo Richards: What, the factory?
- Roy Alston: No, our jobs as fashion designers.
- Bo Richards: Quit complaining. It's a good job. Manufacturing. It's American!”
Charlie Sheen - Bo Richards
Maxwell Caulfield - Roy Alston

“- Bernie: When are you gonna do something with your life?
- David: Like you? Work at a job I hate and fuck women I can't stand?
- Bernie: Fuck you, it's a life!
- David: Not the kind of life I want.”
Cameron Bancroft - Bernie
Thomas Gibson - David

“I'm gonna be late for work again. That's the fifth time this week, and it's only Tuesday, man.”
Cheech Marin - Cheech

“- Nick Powers: What do you think we're running here?
- Lily: It looks to me like a zoo!”
Robert Barrat - Nick Powers
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Mom: Well, you could use some help. What if you gave him a job?
- Dad: I don't want him sellin' used cars!
- Mom: Why not? It's good enough for you.
- Dad: Who says its good enough for me?
- Mom: You do.”
Barbara Barrie - Mom
Paul Dooley - Dad

“- Ezra Grahme: Ma'am, do you hold any degrees?
- Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters: Is the Pope an old white man?”

Lane Smith - Ezra Grahme
Vivica A. Fox - Elizabeth 'Mickey' Waters

“- General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier.
- Saigo: No, just a simple baker.”
Ken Watanabe - General Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Kazunari Ninomiya - Saigo

“- Frank: Look, I'm retired, okay. I'm happy. We are happy.
- Marvin: Frank... Frank... You haven't killed anybody in months.
- Frank: That is not a bad thing, okay? That's a positive thing for a lot of people.”
Bruce Willis - Frank
John Malkovich - Marvin

“I've given this country twenty-two damn, fucking years of my life. Twenty-two years! I've seen young boys blown out of the air, over the Pacific. I've seen their guts sprawled all over the rice paddies in Vietnam, so whenever somebody dies for this country, believe me boy, I give a shit!”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Charles "Chappy" Sinclair

“- Shannon: He walked into my shop here about five or six years ago. Right out of the blue. Asking for a job. So I put him to the test to see what he could do. The kid's amazing.
- Irene: Yeah.
- Shannon: So I hired him on the spot.”

“The whole world's goin' to hell, you're just gonna sit there?”

Hugh Jackman - Logan

“- Jake Hayes: Even if they don't shoot you, they take your life.
- Officer Oaks: I know it sounds hokey, but I honestly believe that our work is about something bigger than ourselves. We're offering you the chance to become part of that, find a purpose.
- Jake Hayes: You ain't offering me nothing but a chance to get a bullet in my ass. I don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Rock - Jake Hayes
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Officer Oakes

“How many of them really know what they want, though? I mean, a lot of them think they have to know, right? But inside they don't really know, so... I don't know, but I know that I don't know.”

John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

“We like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, God forbid... cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?”
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves

“I'm Joe. I pay a day's pay for a day's work. I pay on Fridays. I'll give you a little something today but your first real payday is next Friday. We start about six in the morning, quit at one or two and if we work through dinner or get rained out, I pay for the whole day. Does that sound fair enough?”
Nicolas Cage - Joe

“- Gretta Milano: Do you believe in God?
- John Hobbes: Yeah, I mean, you know, I go to church every now and then. What I see in my line of work... faith's a little hard I sustain.”
Embeth Davidtz - Gretta Milano
Denzel Washington - John Hobbes

“- Saul Silver: Look, only reason I started selling pot is so I could put my bubbeh in a nice retirement home.
- Dale Denton: [sarcastically] Oh, yeah, she must be proud of you for that.
- Saul Silver: She is really proud of me, and I'm gonna become something, man! As soon as she dies, I'm gonna become a civil engineer. I'm gonna design septic...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Franco - Saul Silver
Seth Rogen - Dale Denton