Job quotes

“- Ron: You know, Terry, a lot of people come to see me with all kinds of problems. Drugs, alcohol, marital problems, sexual problems, health problems.
- Terry: Great job you got.
- Ron: Well... I like it. Because even in this little town, I feel like what I do is very connected with the real center of people's lives.”

Kenneth Lonergan - Ron
Mark Ruffalo - Terry

“- Frank Horrigan: Take my hand. If you don't, you'll die.
- Mitch Leary: Do you want to save me, Frank?
- Frank Horrigan: To be frank and honest with you, no. But it's my job.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan
John Malkovich - Mitch Leary

“- Jesse Stone: [on the phone] Well I'm just a small town cop. Mostly I give out parking tickets.
- Jenn (voice): I don't want to talk about your work.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
Gillian Anderson - Jenn (voice)

“- Harry Dunne: Yeah, I lost my job too.
- Lloyd Christmas: Man, You are one pathetic loser. No offense.
- Harry Dunne: No, none taken.”
Jeff Daniels - Harry Dunne
Jim Carrey - Lloyd Christmas

“- Queen Elizabeth: My husband is required to speak publicly.
- Lionel Logue: Perhaps he should change jobs.
- Queen Elizabeth: He can't.
- Lionel Logue: Indentured servitude?
- Queen Elizabeth: Something of that nature, yes.”

Helena Bonham Carter - Queen Elizabeth
Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue

“My only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.”
Ron Livingston - Peter

“When my brothers and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.”
Edward Norton - Sheldon Mopes

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“- Kyle Brenner: If I get married it's going to be a cosmetics counter girl.
- Michael Delany: Why a cosmetics counter girl?
- Kyle Brenner: It's the perfect woman, man. You know they're always going to smell good and wear makeup, plus, they're not too ambitious so they'll make a good wife and they're not going to be one of those damn feminist...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jake Busey - Kyle Brenner
Jerry O'Connell - Michael Delany

“That's the problem with your whole generation. You know, y'all, you don't believe in nothin'. But your father, he believed in something. He believed and understood that something as simple as a little haircut could change the way a man felt on the inside.”

Cedric the Entertainer - Eddie

“- Margaret Tate: Was that your family?
- Andrew Paxton: Yes.
- Margaret Tate: Tell you to quit.
- Andrew Paxton: Every single day.”

Sandra Bullock - Margaret Tate
Ryan Reynolds - Andrew Paxton

“- Cobb: I was hoping you'd changed your mind about the job.
- Paden: You didn't tell me you owned a saloon.
- Cobb: Oh, that ain't the half of it, friend. Welcome to heaven.”

Brian Dennehy - Cobb
Kevin Kline - Paden

“- Edward Wilson: You are never to tell anyone what it is that I do!
- Margaret 'Clover' Russell: What you do? I don't know what you do! You leave at five, you're home at ten, seven days a week! I live with a ghost! I don't know anything about you!”
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Angelina Jolie - Margaret 'Clover' Russell

“- The Ghost: Did you ever want to be a proper politician in your own right?
- Ruth Lang: Of course, didn't you want to be a proper writer?”
Ewan McGregor - The Ghost
Olivia Williams - Ruth Lang

“- Abby Miller: You really kill people for a living?
- Elektra: Yeah.
- Abby Miller: Why?
- Elektra: It's what I'm good at.
- Abby Miller: That's messed up.”
Kirsten Prout - Abby Miller
Jennifer Garner - Elektra

“- Claire Keesey: So what do you do for work?
- Doug MacRay: Boston Sanding Gravel, I break rocks. Punch the ticket at the end of the day, slide down the back of a Brontosaurus like Fred Flintstone, call it a night.”
Rebecca Hall - Claire Keesey
Ben Affleck - Doug MacRay

“- City Editor Bostwick: Why anyone is simple minded enough to want to work on a newspaper I've never been able to find out.
- Nancy Drew: Journalism is a very noble and glorious career. With all the adventure and romance and everything I'd think you would just love it.”
Thomas E. Jackson - City Editor Bostwick
Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew

“- Fanning: According to the cab company's dispatch unit, he's been driving that cab for twelve years.
- Pedrosa: So what?
- Fanning: So you're telling me the guy walks into a phone booth, and shazam, changes into a meat-eater super assassin? What's he do, squeeze them in between fares?”

Mark Ruffalo - Fanning
Bruce McGill - Pedrosa

“- Clark Griswold: Audrey! What are you doing? Ten years of tap dancing lessons and this is the way you repay us?
- Audrey Griswold: What? You told me to get a summer job.”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold
Marisol Nichols - Audrey Griswold

“I can't have you challenging me in front of senior staff. They respect you. When you question my judgement, you undermine my leadership. If you disagree with a decision I've made, I need you to bring it up with me in private.”

Craig T. Nelson - Salinger

“- Tyler Durden: Why would anyone want this shit job?
- The Narrator: Because it affords him other interesting opportunities.
- Tyler Durden: Like splicing single frames of pornography into family films.”

Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden
Edward Norton - The Narrator

“- J.D.: I'm a mime! I'm a mime! Ha ha ha!
- Wayne: Dude, mimes don't talk.
- J.D.: They do when they're off duty.”

Jack Black - J.D.
Steve Zahn - Wayne

- Mr. Gordon: You're fired.
- Lawrence "Larry" Stevens: You can't fire me. I quit.
George Cleveland - Mr. Gordon
Dick Powell - Lawrence "Larry" Stevens

“- Emma: It must be nice to have a job with so much downtime.
- Randal: Downtime's important. If I had to deal with all the fucking mouthbreathers non-stop without a break, I'd put my head in the deep-fryer.”
Jennifer Schwalbach Smith - Emma
Jeff Anderson - Randal

“- Kid: You are really Santa, right?
- Willie: No, I'm an accountant. I wear this fucking thing as a fashion statement, alright?”
Brett Kelly - Kid
Billy Bob Thornton - Willie