Job quotes

“Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make ya grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.”
Carl Weathers - Apollo

“- Catherine Langford: Translation: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Interested?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: I-I'm gonna go now.
- Catherine Langford: Go where? I mean, you've just been evicted out of your apartment, your grants have run out: everything you own are in those two bags. You wanna prove that your theories are right? This is your chance.”
Viveca Lindfors - Catherine Langford
James Spader - Dr. Daniel Jackson

“- Max: I always pay you what's right.
- Nick: You always think you do. I always know what you pay me. It's not always right.”
Marlon Brando - Max
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells

“- Senator John McGlory: I always thought you were just really good at your job. But you really are an asshole, aren't you?
- Nick: They go hand in hand, Senator.”
Jay O. Sanders - Senator John McGlory
Denis Colin Leary - Nick

“- Frank Martin: You really think killing all these politicians is gonna make things easier for them?
- Gianni Chellini: That's not my problem. I was hired to do a job. I did the job, like you. Just... my pay is better. My hair and my suit, too.”
Jason Statham - Frank Martin
Alessandro Gassmann - Gianni Chellini

“- Annie: I thought you hated your job.
- Miss Hannigan: No, I love my job; it's kids I hate.”
Alicia Morton - Annie Bennett
Kathy Bates - Miss Agatha Hannigan

“- Lex: What are you and Ellie going to do now if you don't have to pick up dinosaur bones anymore?
- Grant: I don't know. I guess we'll just have to evolve too.”
Ariana Richards - Lex
Sam Neill - Grant

“You don't like to see me enjoying myself. When a man's working himself to death, that's what he's paid for. You don't care if a man can live on his wages or not.”

Lewis Stone - Doctor Otternschlag

“It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for a Geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings, she entertains you. Whatever you want; the rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“- Romy White: The reunion is less than two weeks away. I just can't believe that you turned down a job!
- Michele Weinberger: Well, I thought the whole point of going to the reunion was to impress people. I mean, how am I gonna impress anybody by selling ban-lon smocks at Bargain Mart?”
Mira Sorvino - Romy White
Lisa Kudrow - Michele Weinberger

“- Joe: I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island is going to sink into the ocean. They have this mineral your father wants so he hired me to leap into their volcano.
- Patricia: What?
- Joe: You're not going to make me say that again, are you?”
Tom Hanks - Joe
Meg Ryan - Patricia

“For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody before they do something horrible.”
Denzel Washington - Doug Carlin

“- Edward Lewis: I don't sell the whole company, I break it up into pieces, and then I sell that off, it's worth more than the whole.
- Vivian Ward: So, it's sort of like, um… stealing cars and selling 'em for parts, right?
- Edward Lewis: Yeah, sort of. But legal.”
Richard Tiffany Gere - Edward Lewis
Julia Roberts - Vivian Ward

“- Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury: After all that this family has done for you, and this is how you behave?
- Ferguson: Well, yeah, so I guess I won't be getting that Employee of The Year Award, after all, eh?”
Jonathan Hyde - Herbert Arthur Runcible Cadbury
Chelcie Ross - Ferguson

“- Lawrence Van Dough: 37-and-a-half miles of driveway, and you park in the 5 feet with a puddle!
- Chauffeur: I'm very sorry, sir.
- Lawrence Van Dough: You're very sorry? Well, in that case, find another job.”
John Larroquette - Lawrence Van Dough
David Fawcett - Chauffeur

“- Benjamin Oliver: Wayne! Listen, we need to have a talk about Vanderhoff. The fact he's the sponsor and you signed a contract guaranteeing him certain concessions, one of them being a spot on the show.
- Wayne Campbell: [holding a Pizza Hut box] Well that's where I see things just a little differently. Contract or no, I will not bow to any...” (continue)(continue reading)

Rob Lowe - Benjamin Oliver
Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell
Dana Carvey - Garth Algar

“- Joel: Look, granted, I should've read your book before I took this job, but I'm reading it now and, whoa! I just read what happened to your last camera man. The guy got gutted. Now I'm gonna do what any rational human being would do and that is to get the fuck outta here.
- Gale Weathers: First of all, he wasn't gutted; I made that part up......” (continue)(continue reading)
Duane Martin - Joel
Courteney Cox - Gale Weathers

“We got babies in South Central dying as young as they do in Peru / We got public schools that are nightmares / We got a Congress that ain't got a clue / We got kids with submachine guns / We got militias throwing bombs / We got Bill just gettin all weepy / We got Newt blaming teenage moms / We got factories closing down / Where the hell did all...” (continue)(continue reading)

Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“He will never be a cop - he hates cops. I love him and I... I thank God that I was just too busy pass on to him what my granddaddy passed on to my daddy and my daddy passed on to me - And I was raised up to be a gunfighter by a family of gunfighters.”
Kurt Russell - Eldon Perry

“- Paris: Paris P. Olgilvie. Antiquities dealer, entrepreneur.
- Riddick: Richard B. Riddick. Escaped convict. Murderer.”
Lewis Fitz-Gerald - Paris P. Ogilvie
Vin Diesel - Richard B. Riddick

“- Dr. Reston: Do you have a lot of stress at work?
- Frankie Paige: I cut hair.”
Ann Cusack - Dr. Reston
Patricia Arquette - Frankie Paige

- Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser: Banker?
- Chris Thorne: No, not banker. Financial publisher. "Thorne Weekly"?
- Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser: Ok, banker.

Dan Aykroyd - Judge Alvin 'J.P' Valkenheiser
Chevy Chase - Chris Thorne

“The place is a joke, alright? They don't come to watch you sing, they come to watch girls shaking it on a bar!”

Piper Perabo - Kevin O'Donnell

“- April O'Neil: My nearest neighbors are about four miles away. I need to get to a phone and call my boss.
- Casey Jones: You mean Charles?
- April O'Neil: Yes; how did you know that?
- Casey Jones: He left a message on your machine, uh, just before we got out...
- April O'Neil: And?
- Casey Jones: Well, hey, you just saved yourself an...” (continue)(continue reading)
Judith Hoag - April O'Neil
Elias Koteas - Casey Jones

“- Brian: Now maybe we can settle down and start a body shop together.
- Roman: How we gonna do that?
- Brian: Your pockets ain't empty cuz.
- Roman: And we ain't hungry no more either, brah.”

Paul William Walker IV - Brian O'Conner
Tyrese Gibson - Roman Pearce