Job quotes

“We have no friends, Jack, none. All we have are people we do business with.”

Hannah Endicott-Douglas - Sarah Abramoff

“My old lady couldn't afford to send me to college. So I got a job. I was washing dishes, dumping trash... all that sort of shit.”
Eric Freeman - Ricky Caldwell

“It's called making people feel good about themselves so that they'll cooperate with you and help you to do your job. You should try it some time.”

Al Pacino - Det. Frank Keller

“- Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?
- Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.”
Myrna Loy - Nora Charles
William Powell - Nick Charles

“- Le Peron: You've got nothing to do around here.
- Lucien Cordier: Doing nothing is my job. I'm paid for it.
- Le Peron: So go do nothing somewhere else.”
Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: You're better with your feet than you are with your broom.
- Ray Bolger: I wish you'd give me a chance. I've got talent, and I'd like to get away from shifting scenery and moving props.”
William Powell - Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Ray Bolger - Ray Bolger

“This is your job. You want a clear conscience, go start a charity.”
Ben Affleck - Ivan Block

“- Mike Zavala: Wouldn't it be crazy if your kids were pushing the black and white together one day?
- Brian Taylor: Screw that. I want my kid to have an honest job. Like a politician.”
Michael Peña - Mike Zavala
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brian Taylor

“To be an anarchist in Salt Lake City was certainly no easy task, especially in 1985. And having no money, no job, no plans for the future, the true anarchist position was in itself a strenuous job.”
Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“Are you interested in joining? The benefits are terrific. The trick is not to get killed. That's really the key to the benefit program.”

Peter Falk - Vince Ricardo

“- Dianne Wainford: What sort of policeman are you?
- Dr. Alex Cross: I'm a forensic psychologist. It's a fancy way of saying I'm a guy who walks into a room like that and determines the hows and whys.”
Deborah Strang - Dianne Wainford
Morgan Freeman - Dr. Alex Cross

“- Peter Gaulke: I should've never hired you!
- Cooker: That's the most un-American thing I've ever heard in my life!”
Steve Zahn - Peter Gaulke
Jonah Hill - Cooker

“- Nadine: I really need these credits to get into nursing school.
- Harry: Nursing school? Don't you think you'd be happier in a different profession, one where people's lives were not dependent on you?”
Katharine Towne - Nadine
Orlando Jones - Harry

“- Ray: So you've used the door, the building's still intact, people are happy you've arrived, they feel safe now, there's an officer there and he's done a good job, so you might want to tell him he's done a good job.
- John Hancock: What the hell did I have to come for, Ray, if he's done a good job?”

Jason Bateman - Ray
Will Smith - John Hancock

“- Miles Russell: You have much more hair in your nose than my dad.
- Buck Russell: How nice of you to notice.
- Miles Russell: I'm a kid, that's my job.”
Macaulay Culkin - Miles Russell
John Candy - Buck Russell

“You know what really chaps my ass? After years of training and study, the only parts they'll give us are gangbangers. Just once I'd like to play a character who has decent grammar and doesn't wear Timberlands.”
Taye Diggs - Sean James

“Can you imagine being the guy whose job it is to argue for the right to build a mall on top of a geological phenomenon?”

Zach Braff - Andrew Largeman

“- Chloe Steele: I have exams, I have to go!
- Rayford Steele: And I have a flight. It's called a job. Welcome to the real world!”
Janaya Stephens - Chloe Steele
Brad Johnson - Rayford Steele

“What kind of man knowingly takes a job where he's gotta wash another man's balls?”

Alan Arkin - Louis 'Lightning' Conlon

“- Stanley: I got fired today!
- Eugene Morris Jerome: Fired? You mean for good?
- Stanley: You don't get fired temporarily. It's a permanent lifetime firing.”
Brian Drillinger - Stanley
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Helen Gandy: Can you keep a secret?
- J. Edgar Hoover: Yes. Of course. You have my word.
- Helen Gandy: I'm not interested in getting married. My work comes first.”

Naomi Watts - Helen Gandy
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar Hoover

“- Chancho: You've never wrestled?
- Nacho: Me? No. Come on. Don't be crazy. I know the wrestlers get all the fancy ladies, and the clothes, and the fancy creams and lotions. But my life is good! Really good! I get to wake up every morning, at 5AM, and make some soup! It's the best. I love it. I get to lay in a bed, all by myself, all of my life!...” (continue)(continue reading)
Darius Rose - Chancho
Jack Black - Nacho

“For 18 months I've been trying to get a job on your newspaper, but the only black people you hire do windows, mop floors and kiss ass. I don't like it, I've tried it.”
Richard Pryor - Jack Brown

“- Kay Bentley: Mike, when I interview him, would it be all right if I mention your name?
- Michael Shayne: Sure, if you wanna hear some new words.”
Lynn Bari - Kay Bentley
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

“- Babs: Then will you give me a job?
- Narvel Blue: I got a hundred black men need jobs! Black women, too. Why should I give you one?
- Babs: Because you need white faces.”
Jessica Lange - Babs
Carl Lumbly - Narvel Blue