Job quotes

“- Belloq: You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light.
- Indiana Jones: Now you're getting nasty.”
Paul Freeman - Belloq
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

- Duane Duke: Business slow?
- Norman Bates: Well, you're my first customer of the day. Or did you just stop in for directions to the Interstate? Well, it's the next...
- Duane Duke: No, actually, I was interested in that "Help Wanted" sign in the window.
Jeff Fahey - Duane
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates

“- Mary Fisher: Ute, where are you going?
- Ute: I took this job because I only had to cook and clean for one person and one dog. Then I get the mother, the lover, his kids and their dog. Miss Fisher, up with this bullshit I will not put. I quit!”

Meryl Streep - Mary Fisher
Susan Willis - Ute

“- Martin Q. Blank: I'm a professional killer.
- Paul Spericki: Do you have to do postgraduate work for that?”
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank
Jeremy Piven - Paul Spericki

“- Ray Bledsoe: You're out of prison for one week and you come back to Brown's Hole. Get the hell out of here! Get a job or something. And stay out of trouble!
- Butch Cassidy: I don't want a job, Ray. That kind of life doesn't suit me.”
Jeff Corey - Ray Bledsoe
Tom Berenger - Butch Cassidy

“I must pronounce our solemn farewell. Under these circumstances, of course, my functions - and those of my colleagues - terminate here.”
Morris Ankrum - Jefferson Davis

“Oh, you know, the usual. Defending the rights of my broken hearted clients and try to squeeze every single penny out of their miserable cheating spouses.”
Christina Applegate - Courtney Rockcliffe

“- Archie Gates: My guess is he's divided these bricks into several different stashes. Just one of these stashes will be easy to take from Saddam's deserting army, and that will be enough to get us out of our day jobs. Unless, of course, you reservists are in love with your day jobs.
- Conrad Vig: I don't really have a day job, sir.”

George Clooney - Archie Gates
Spike Jonze - Conrad Vig

“Charlie's a prince of the Seminole Nation. His ancestors go back to the gods. He sells sea shells by the sea shore.”
Lauren Bacall - Nora Temple

“Let's be real about this. Bala and I... Bala is a princess, and I'm a soil relocation engineer.”
Woody Allen - Z

“You asked me how I'm doing. You wanna know how I'm doing? I can't get a job.. All my friends? Gone. I'm being followed by the FBI everywhere I go. I lost my house. I can't even buy my son a bike for Christmas.”

Robert De Niro - David Merrill

“I worked with David Merrick... on Broadway. I know about contracts.”
June Havoc - Helen Morell

“When the SAS is called upon to do what we're trained to do, we have been likened to a surgeon cutting out a cancer. It's a filthy and difficult job. We don't like doing it, but it's our duty.”
Tony Doyle - Colonel Hadley

“- Dr. Robert Doback: You have one month to find jobs or you're out on your asses. I will arrange interviews for Monday and you will go!
- Dale Doback: Dad, why are you talking to me like this? I'm your son.
- Dr. Robert Doback: I'm not buying that crap anymore!”
Richard Jenkins - Dr. Robert Doback
John C. Reilly - Dale Doback

“- Miss Millie: You kids are so clean. You wanna come work for me, be my maid?
- Sofia: Hell no.”
Dana Ivey - Miss Millie
Oprah Winfrey - Sofia

“My passion is equal to the task.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier

“- U.S. Reporter: Hey champ how come you don't use a trainer anymore?
- Eric Sloane: I got my kid brother in my corner for now. He says he's gonna be a vet, I say he's gonna be a lawyer, or I’m gonna kick his butt!”
Mark DiSalle - U.S. Reporter
Dennis Alexio - Eric Sloane

“There are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics.”

Louis Jean Heydt - Mentor Graham

“- Paul Kirkwood: What kind of future can she have with this guy, he cuts meat!
- Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland: You plow snow.
- Kev: Hey, at least meat you can eat.”
Michael Rapaport - Paul Kirkwood
Matt Dillon - Tommy 'Birdman' Rowland
Max Perlich - Kev

“- Mr. Ping: We all have our place in this world. Mine is here, and yours is...
- Po: I know. Here.
- Mr. Ping: No, it's at tables two, five, seven and twelve. Service with a smile!”
James Hong - Mr. Ping
Jack Black - Po

I went to beautician's school where everybody graduated except me, but I got a job as a shampoo boy at Marisa's House of Hair in Bensonhurst. The hours suck; the pay sucks; I'm surrounded by "funny guys", but the tips are great. Thank you, God!
Kevin Dillon - Rooney

“It's unrealistic for a man with a fine mind to go on working year after year at a job he can't stand. Coming home to a place he can't stand, to a wife who's equally unable to stand the same things.”
Kate Winslet - April Wheeler

“- Lance: Come on, man, you got nothing better to do than hassle long-hairs?
- Officer Bob Falfa: That's my life, friend. I love my work.”
John Lansing - Lance
Harrison Ford - Officer Bob Falfa

“- Wendy: Don't talk to them about school.
- Skeeter Bronson: Why not?
- Wendy: They're closing it down. I'm getting laid off.
- Skeeter Bronson: No way! You? But you're like the classic school principle! I mean you're scary and bad with people...”
Courteney Cox - Wendy
Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson

“- Harold 'Happy' Loman: Bob Harrison, he said you were tops, and then you go and do some damn fool thing like whistling whole songs in the elevator like a comedian.
- Biff Loman: Well, so what? I like to whistle sometimes.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: You don't raise a guy to a responsible job who whistles in the elevator!”
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman
John Malkovich - Biff Loman