Job quotes

“- Mr. Hooten: Do you have a job, Tom?
- Tommy Corn: I'm a firefighter.
- Mrs. Hooten: Oh, God bless you! A hero!
- Tommy Corn: I'm not a hero. We'd all be heroes if we quit using petroleum, though.”
Jean Smart - Mrs. Hooten
Mark Wahlberg - Tommy Corn

“- Leon, the Bartender: What a waste of space.
- Gil Renard: What do you mean 'A waste of space'? He hit a bad patch. We all hit bad patches, don't we? What you never hit a bad patch?
- Leon, the Bartender: No, this is my dream job.”

Frank Medrano - Leon, the Bartender
Robert De Niro - Gil Renard

“- Ben Campbell: So, why are you telling me?
- Micky Rosa: Well, let's just say a spot opened up on our roster.
- Ben Campbell: How?
- Micky Rosa: Jimmy got a job at Google.”

Jim Sturgess - Ben Campbell
Kevin Spacey - Micky Rosa

“The eleven o'clock news shows you a body being wrapped in a white sheet. Somebody's gotta do the wrapping - some night's that's me.”
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey

“- Carl Fredricksen: I believe I made my position to your boss quite clear.
- Construction Foreman Tom: You poured prune juice in his gas tank.
- Carl Fredricksen: Oh, yeah, that was good.”
Ed Asner - Carl Fredricksen
John Deszo Ratzenberger - Construction Foreman Tom

“Fuckin' office job! Who the fuck wants a job like that? You fuckin' sit at a little desk, you got your little phone, you got your little fuckin' piece of paper, your little pen, you write shit down, blah blah blah. Fuck, a monkey could do that shit man!”
Charlize Theron - Aileen

“Well, like he says, it's mostly odd things he does. Helping like... here and there as it might be.”
Sheila Raynor - Mum

“You see, there are two kinds of people in this world: the workers and the hustlers. The hustlers never work and the workers never hustle...”
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“- Brantley Foster: No! No exceptions! I want this job, I need it, I can do it. Everywhere I've been today there's always been something wrong, too young, too old, too short, too tall. whatever the exception is, I can fix it. I can be older, I can be taller, I can be anything.
- Mrs. Meacham: Can you be a minority woman?”

Michael J. Fox - Brantley Foster
Judith Malina - Mrs. Meacham

“- Donna: Fisherman?
- Joe: Yeah, I was.
- Donna: Like it?
- Joe: While it lasted, yes.
- Donna: You didn't go on anymore?
- Joe: Nope.
- Donna: Why not?
- Joe: Unforeseen circumstances.”
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio - Donna De Angelo
David Strathairn - Joe Gastineau

“Maybe you made too many, Pete. I remember when you had a soul, not just a job.”

Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“Police work is as much about preventing crime as it is about fighting crime. Most importantly, it is about procedural correctness in the execution of unquestionable moral authority.”
Simon Pegg - Nicholas Angel

“- Simon: Mom! Mother! Why did you turn off my alarm? Why didn't you wake me up?
- Mag: I was already up so...
- Simon: My route, how did you know what houses to go to?
- Mag: It was fine, I just needed something to do.
- Simon: What about me? I needed something to do.
- Mag: Go clean the garage that's something to do.
- Simon: No! I don't want...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Stahl - Simon
Susan Sarandon - Mag

“- Just Judy: I can't understand why he's not married, though.
- John: You know the type. He's married to his job.”

Joanna Page - Just Judy
Martin Freeman - John

“Oh look at that, a fire, well I hope it's not a bad one - because the faggot who's been saving your sorry asses is now, thanks to you, working on another shift.”

Kevin James - Larrie Valentine

“- James Lennox: I'm a drug dealer.
- Neil Bucyk: I bury dead people.
- Eddie Strombeck: I have a single digit sperm count.
- Chris Cutter: And I'm a naked cheater. I say we go for it. Are you with me? Let's do it.”

Peter Outerbridge - James Lennox
James Allodi - Neil Bucyk
Jed Rees - Eddie Strombeck
Paul Gross - Chris Cutter

“You know, that was the hardest part about having to portray you, grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.”
Dougray Scott - Sean Ambrose

“- Inigo Montoya: Are you the Miracle Max who worked for the king all those years?
- Miracle Max: The King's stinking son fired me, and thank you so much for bringing up such a painful subject. While you're at it, why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?”
Mandy Patinkin - Inigo Montoya
Billy Crystal - Miracle Max

“- Loc Dog: I told her I don't want to be on welfare my whole life, you know what i'm sayin'. Hey for real nigga I got bigger and better plans, you know what i'm sayin'. Figured I'd get me a job at the post office, you know, maybe at a bank. You know what I'm saying.
- Ashtray: That's all good, man.
- Loc Dog: Work real hard. Work my way up to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Marlon Wayans - Loc Dog
Shawn Wayans - Ashtray

“You know, sometimes I wish I did a little more with my life instead of hanging out in front of places selling weed and shit. Like, maybe be an animal doctor. Why not me? I like seals and shit. Or maybe an astronaut. Yeah. Like, be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien lifeform... and fuck it. And people'd be like, ...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jason Mewes - Jay

“I'm doing a commercial for margarine. I'm Count Cholesterol.”

Ted Danson - Jack

“- Sgt. Deke Slater: So, does this mean I'm not fired?
- Joshua McCord: You're not that lucky.”

Dylan Neal - Sgt. Deke Slater
Chuck Norris - Joshua McCord

“- Avner: What kind of work do you do?
- Jeanette the Dutch Assassin: The kind that drives you to drink.”
Eric Bana - Avner

The essence of my work relies fundamentally on two basic principles: objectivity and observation, or "the two obs" as I call them. My work relies on my ability to remain absolutely, purely objective, detached. I have mastered the fine art of detachment. And while it comes at some cost, this supreme objectivity is what makes me, I dare say, the... (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- Eddie: I've never in my life met an executive who could tie their shoes, much less rewire an entire building.
- Sara: There's always exceptions.
- Eddie: No. Come on, what's the truth?
- Sara: The truth is if we keep taking rights, we're going to have to end up where we started.”
Taye Diggs - Eddie
Ali Larter - Sara