Job quotes

“A jester unemployed is nobody's fool.”
Danny Kaye - Hubert Hawkins

“Hey, I started out mopping the floor just like you guys. But now... now I'm washing lettuce. Soon I'll be on fries; then the grill. In a year or two, I'll make assistant manager, and that's when the big bucks start rolling in.”
Louie Anderson - Maurice

“- Jessie: You sell little fucking cars, that's what you do.
- Frank: I wear $150 slacks, I wear silk shirts, I wear $800 suits, I wear a gold watch, I wear a perfect, D-flawless three carat ring. I change cars like other guys change their fucking shoes. I'm a thief. I've been in prison, all right?”
Tuesday Weld - Jessie
James Caan - Frank

“You got yourself a distraction that needs dealing with.”

Chris Mulkey - Frank

“- Peg: Good morning Joyce. Avon calling.
- Joyce: Well Peg, have you gone blind? Can't you see there's a vehicle in my driveway?
- Peg: Yes.
- Joyce: Well don't you know that means I'm busy?”
Dianne Wiest - Peg
Kathy Baker - Joyce

“- Danny Pope: So, what are you doing over the summer?
- Lorna Phillips: I have a job pumping gas.
- Danny Pope: You finally got the Supreme Court to hear your case, huh?
- Lorna Phillips: Yeah.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

“I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.”
Matthew Goode

“Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun.”
William Sadler

“I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.”
Renny Harlin

“I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.”
Ryan Murphy

“Hello? Hello? Hello? Avon calling. Oh, my. Hello? Hello? I'm Peg Boggs. I'm your local Avon representative. Hello? I... I'm sorry to barge in like this, but you don't have any reason to be afraid. Ooh! This is some huge house, isn't it? Thank goodness for those aerobics... classes. Hello? Hello?”

Dianne Wiest - Peg

Well, I see your hobbies include "drinkin', smokin' weed, and all kinds of ill shit".

Alan Abelew - Recruiter

“Want to test your marriage for weak spots? Add one recession, subtract two jobs. It's surprisingly effective.”
Rosamund Pike - Amy Dunne

“There comes a time when things are best left to the professionals.”
Maggie Smith - Violet Crawley

“Oh, no. I'm not getting a job. Jobs are for poor people. I'm a rich person who doesn't have any money.”
Mila Kunis - Jackie Burkhart

“I have worked very hard over the years to avoid working.”
Charisma Carpenter - Kendall Casablancas

“Who goes on vacation without a job? What do you need a break from getting up at eleven?”
Jerry Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld

“Anyone can do my job, but no one can be me.”
Gabriel Macht - Harvey Specter

“I guess I’ve been working so hard, I forgot what it’s like to be hardly working.”
Steve Carrell

“If I wanted a boyfriend, and a yoga class, and a house, and kids, and a job my mom could brag about, I'd have done it. It would take me 10 minutes. I don't want it.”
Carey Mulligan - Cassandra

“Bill-You're fired.
Sebastian-It's Christmas.
Bill-Yeah, I see the decorations. Good luck in the New Year.”
J. K. Simmons - Bill
Ryan Gosling - Sebastian

“You're a barista? I can see how you can look down on me from all the way up there.”
Ryan Gosling - Sebastian

“Well, I love my job at the pharmacy. I get to play with the pills, and sometimes I shake them along to the music.”
Vanessa Bayer - Debbie

“Barb-We’ll find another job. This small town’s full of places looking to hire women in their forties.
Star-Yeah. That’s the attitude!
Barb-We’ll find something even better. I mean, we both have high school degrees.
Star-Well, you do.
Barb-Well, I don’t. I thought you did.
Star-Well, I don’t.”
Kristen Wiig - Star
Annie Mumolo - Barb

“Gabrielle-You should switch jobs, delivery is just not your thing, y'know.
Naoufel-I know. My boss keeps telling me that.”
Hakim Faris - Naoufel
Victoire Du Bois - Gabrielle