Job quotes

“- Barnsby: Our experts have been studying that bridge for weeks, and they say it'll blow. I don't know where you learned your job, but I'm talking about the best construction engineers in the business!
- Miller: Yes. Well, they're probably experts at building things, whereas I'm an expert at blowing them up, and you can take it from me that one...” (continue)(continue reading)
Harrison Ford - Barnsby
Edward Fox - Miller

“You're an artist, man. Your job is to break through barriers. Not accept blame and bow and say thank you, I'm a loser, I'll go away now.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“- Truvy Jones: I kind of like hiring somebody with a past.
- Clairee Belcher: She can't be more than eighteen. She hasn't had time to have a past.”
Dolly Parton - Truvy Jones
Olympia Dukakis - Clairee Belcher

“- Mitch Leary: Watching the President, I couldn't help wondering why a man like you would risk his life to save a man like that. You have such a strange job - I can't decide if it's heroic or absurd.
- Frank Horrigan: Why would a man like you want to risk his life to kill a man like that?”

John Malkovich - Mitch Leary
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan

“I always say, when you've got a job to do, get somebody else to do it.”
Humphrey Bogart - George Hally

“Some men have called me an ecdysiast. Do you know what that means? An ecdysiast is one who, or that which, sheds it's skin. In vulgar parlance, a stripper. But I'm not a stripper. At these prices, I'm an ecdysiast!”
Cynthia Gibb - Gypsy Rose Lee

“- Scamper: Who are you?
- Louie: That's Jack, they feed him and he watches us.
- Jack: It's my job.
- Louie: Get another job then! Don't work for these bad men, money's the only thing they care about!”
Danielle Romeo - Louie
Evgeniy Leonov - Jack

“Psychiatrist by day, party animal by night.”

Leah Cairns - Sara Pollard

“Never send a human to do a machine's job.”
Hugo Weaving - Agent Smith

“- Moat: It is hard to fill a cup that is already full.
- Jake Sully: My cup is empty. Trust me. Just ask Dr. Augustine. I'm no scientist.
- Moat: Then what are you?
- Jake Sully: I was a marine. A warrior... of the uh... Jarhead Clan.”
CCH Pounder - Moat
Sam Worthington - Jake Sully

“- Brad Hamilton: Why don't you get a job, Spicoli?
- Jeff Spicoli: What for?
- Brad Hamilton: You need money.
- Jeff Spicoli: All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.”
Judge Reinhold - Brad Hamilton
Sean Penn - Jeff Spicoli

- Quentin: We got an escape artist and a cop. There's gotta be a reason for that. You're a doctor. That gives you a function, a reason, right?
- Holloway: No! It just makes me go "Why me and not one of the other ten million doctors out there?".

Maurice Dean Wint - Quentin
Nicky Guadagni - Holloway

“You know, if I had your job, I'd kill myself! Wait here, I'll see if I can dig up a pistol.”

Jon Lovitz - Ernie Capadino

“I've killed men, I let a friend die, I betrayed everything I've ever believed in. And yes, I've fucked other women. And you know what's worse? I've made you and the children a target because someone out there is going to kill you unless I kill him first. That's my job, Mona. And if you don't mind, I'm late for work.”
Aidan Quinn - Lt. Cmdr. Annibal Ramirez

“I'm going on with my work because, as you said, it is important. At least we believe it's important, and we must live what we believe.”

Leslie Howard - R.J. Mitchell

“- Kara Bingham: Don't you talk for a living? Motivational king of stuff?
- Ryan Bingham: I tell people how to avoid commitment.
- Kara Bingham: What kind of fucked up message is that?
- Ryan Bingham: It's a philosophy.
- Kara Bingham: It's stupid.”
Amy Morton - Kara Bingham
George Clooney - Ryan Bingham

“- Nick: If you want me to do this, you gotta pay me what's right. It's gotta be that way.
- Max: I always pay you what's right.”
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells
Marlon Brando - Max

“- Girl: You fix vacuum cleaners!
- Guy: I do.
- Girl: I have a broken vacuum cleaner. You fix it for me?
- Guy: Yep.
- Girl: I bring it tomorrow then?
- Guy: Okay.
- Girl: This is great. Tomorrow?
- Guy: Right.
- Girl: K. Bye.”
Markéta Irglová - Girl
Glen Hansard - Guy

“Many young men who should be able to move out simply can't. It's called failure to launch.”

Sarah Jessica Parker - Paula

“A Bartender is the aristocrat of the working class.”
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter... you're just a little taller.”

Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes

“- Detective Marcus Burnett: To the DEA you're nothing but a honeypot.
- Syd: What did you say?
- Detective Marcus Burnett: It's no wonder you got the job because you look good in a bathing suit.”
Martin Lawrence - Detective Marcus Burnett
Gabrielle Union - Syd

“Goddamn it, I knew I should've listened to my mother. I could've been a cosmetic surgeon, five hundred thousand a year, up to my neck in tits and ass.”
Michael Douglas - Jack T. Colton

“- Mr. Smith: Ever killed a man, Charlie?
- Louis Booker: Don't answer that!
- Charlie Carbone: No.
- Mr. Smith: What do you do for a livin' that makes you so brave, Charlie?
- Louis Booker: Really don't answer that!
- Charlie Carbone: I'm a hairdresser!”
Marton Csokas - Mr. Smith
Anthony Anderson - Louis Booker
Jerry O'Connell - Charlie Carbone

“- Luggage Salesman: Have you thought much about luggage, Mr. Banks?
- Joe: No.
- Luggage Salesman: It's the central preoccupation of my life.”
Barry McGovern - Luggage Salesman
Tom Hanks - Joe