Job quotes

“- Brett: You see, Mr. Parker and I feel that the bonus situation has never been on an equitable level.
- Dallas: You get what you're contracted for like everybody else.
- Brett: Yes, but everybody else, uh, gets more than us.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Brett
Tom Skerritt - Dallas

“- Irene: What do you do?
- Driver: I drive.
- Irene: Like a limo driver?
- Driver: No, like, for movies.
- Irene: Oh. You mean all the car chases and stuff?
- Driver: Yeah.
- Irene: Isn't that dangerous?”
Carey Mulligan - Irene
Ryan Gosling - Driver

“- Justin Quayle: Your life is your own. That was always our agreement.
- Tessa Quayle: No, no, no. The agreement was, that my work was going to be my own. That's what makes me who I am.”
Ralph Fiennes - Justin Quayle
Rachel Weisz - Tessa Quayle

“If you don't cough up the money, you're through. The only showroom you'll be seeing will have Toyotas in it.”

Charles Woolf - Manny

“- Lilly Raines: I left him, Frank, because I wouldn't quit my job for him. And it did break my heart.
- Frank Horrigan: You vowed never again to ever let a man come between you and your career. Except... now you're in love with me, and it screws your little head up.”

Rene Russo - Lilly Raines
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“- Josey Wales: You a bounty hunter?
- First Bounty Hunter: A man's got to do something for a living these days.
- Josey Wales: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy.”
Clint Eastwood - Josey Wales
John Davis Chandler - First Bounty Hunter

“There are days I really hate this job. This is not my best work, not by a long shot. Oh, sure, a few murders and a couple of rather lovely explosions. I would hardly call it a rousing success, but what the hell? I'll be back.”

Max von Sydow - Leland Gaunt

“- Anney Boatwright: Glen's not like that.
- Granny: You don't know what that boy is like.
- Anney Boatwright: I know he loves me.
- Granny: Love. Can't even hold a job for more than a month.”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - Anney Boatwright
Grace Zabriskie - Granny

“- Ted: Linda, what do you really know about this guy?
- Linda Litzke: I told you, he's in the Treasury Department.
- Ted: But eh, no, I mean, you know... he could be one of these guys that cruises the Internet.
- Linda Litzke: Yeah, so am I...”
Richard Jenkins - Ted
Frances McDormand - Linda Litzke

“- Driver: There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. I don't sit in while you're running it down. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ryan Gosling - Driver
James Biberi - Cook

“- Sawyer: What did you say you did for a living?
- Jeff Blue: I'm an airline pilot.
- Sawyer: I thought you said you were a vacuum cleaner salesman.
- Jeff Blue: Well if you knew, why did you ask?”
Obba Babatundé - Sawyer
Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue

“This is what I do; if some idiot with a sledgehammer could break in, do you really think I'd still have a job?”

Forest Whitaker - Burnham

“- The Detective: Planning on looking for work soon?
- The Driver: My line of work is kind of hard to come by.
- The Detective: It depends on where you look.
- The Driver: It depends on who you are.”
Bruce Dern - The Detective
Ryan O'Neal - The Driver

“- Shareholder: I wanted to be veterinarian.
- Longfellow Deeds: Cool. Why did you want to do that?
- Shareholder: I wanted to help sick animals.
- Longfellow Deeds: And what do you do now?
- Shareholder: I own a chain of slaughterhouses.”
Dion Anderson - Shareholder
Adam Sandler - Longfellow Deeds

“- Linus Larrabee: Listen, I work in the real world with real responsibilities.
- Sabrina Fairchild: I know you work in the real world and you're very good at it. But that's work. Where do you live Linus?”
Harrison Ford - Linus Larrabee
Julia Ormond - Sabrina Fairchild

“I flunk English, I'm outta here. Kiss college goodbye. I don't know what I'll do. Dad will be pissed off. Mom will be heartbroken. If I play my cards right, I get maybe a six-month grace period and then I gotta get a job, and you know what that means. That's right, they start me at the drive-up window and I gradually work my way up from shakes...” (continue)(continue reading)

John Cusack - Walter "Gib" Gibson

“- Daniel Rafferty: I don't believe in divorce.
- Audrey Woods: But you're a divorce lawyer!
- Daniel Rafferty: It's a job.”
Pierce Brosnan - Daniel Rafferty
Julianne Moore - Audrey Woods

“- Louise Baltimore: Your mother was a cash register!
- Sherman: And she turned a tidy profit.”
Cheryl Ladd - Louise Baltimore
Robert Joy - Sherman

“- Professor Lillian Sloan: Bounty hunter?
- Tracker Lewis Gates: Please, civil servant. It sounds a little less...
- Professor Lillian Sloan: Barbaric?”
Barbara Hershey - Prof. Lillian Diane Sloan
Tom Berenger - Lewis Gates

“- Grover Mockridge: Go answer the door. It might be Warner.
- Wilbur Hoolihan: It won't do no good. We're all signed up with Universal.”
Bud Abbott - Grover Mockridge
Lou Costello - Wilbur Hoolihan

“People take their carriers for granted, trust them not to read the sealed envelopes or postcards even. They stick on their stamps and have faith. I deliver the mail but never get any. But still, it's the best job I've ever had. I could do it forever.”

Owen Wilson - Vann

“If by some miracle you actually have what it takes to become one of us, then you get to live a life of meager pay with the distinct possibility of dying slow, cold and alone somewhere in the vast sea. However, you also get the chance to save lives, and there is no greater calling in the world than that.”
John Heard - Capt. Frank Larson

“You can't come by here, because I'm pretending to be gay. In L.A., a straight male hairdresser is an unemployed male hairdresser.”

Royale Watkins - Telly

“- Daniel Kintner: The only reason we are out here in the first place is because of your fucking job!
- Susan Watkins: What?
- Daniel Kintner: If it were not for your job, we would not have thrown our plans out the window, rushed around at the last minute and settled on this fucking trip!”
Daniel Travis - Daniel Kintner
Blanchard Ryan - Susan Watkins

“- Earl Hooter: Sounds like your looking to get yourself fired, little lady.
- Elvira: Yeah, go ahead and fire me. I need this job like a leper needs a three-way mirror!”
Lee McLaughlin - Earl Hooter
Cassandra Peterson - Elvira