Job quotes

“- Florence: Can I handle this my way?
- Jim: You cannot, I'm still editor of this newspaper.
- Florence: Fine, you said I was fired... well, I quit, you give the assignment to somebody else.
- Jim: Wait a minute, come here.
- Florence: No, I'm through.
- Jim: Come here, sob sister, all right, go ahead, do it your own way.”

Glenda Farrell - Florence
Frank McHugh - Jim

“I would kill for this job, but the people I want to kill are the people offering me the job.”
Woody Allen - Val

“- Zeus: Aw, Hades, don't be such a stiff. Join the celebration.
- Hades: Love to, babe. But unlike you gods lounging about up here, I regretfully have a full-time job that you, by the way, so charitably bestowed on me, Zeus. So, can't. Love to, but can't.”

Rip Torn - Zeus
James Woods - Hades

“- Jack Traven: Tell me again Harry, why did I take this job?
- Harry: Oh come on, thirty more years of this, you get a tiny pension and a cheap gold watch.
- Jack Traven: Cool.”

Keanu Reeves - Jack Traven
Jeff Daniels - Harry

“- Preston: Wyatt, I'm broke. I can't live on nothing.
- Wyatt: And I can't live on ten-percent of nothing.
- Preston: You're a monster.
- Wyatt: I'm an agent. For an agent, being a monster is just credentials.”
James Remar - Preston
Robert Klein - Wyatt

“When a fellow is surprised to hear about his own wedding, that's when I go to work with a clear conscience.”
Fred Astaire - Ted Hanover

“- Shaun: [about Ed] Oh, he sells a bit of weed every now and again, you know. You've sold puff.
- Pete: Yeah. Once. At college. To you.”
Simon Pegg - Shaun
Peter Serafinowicz - Pete

“- Nick: After this no more jobs. This is the last one I'm doing. I'm quitting for good.
- Max: Yeah? How many times have you told me that in twenty-five years. I mean, I'm gonna believe that when the pigs eat my brother, right?”
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells
Marlon Brando - Max

“- Jack Elliot: Just let them have a little fun.
- Uchiyama: Baseball is work. Not fun.
- Jack Elliot: Baseball is grown men getting paid to play a game. When you were a kid, I bet you didn't pick up a bat and ball because you were dying to work. A player's career is short enough. Let them enjoy it.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

- Jane: [reading advertisement for a new nanny] "Wanted: a nanny for two adorable children."
- George Banks: Adorable. Well that's debatable, I must say.
- Jane: [singing] If you want this choice position, have a cheery disposition...
- George Banks: Jane, I don't...
- Jane: Rosy cheeks, no warts...
- Michael: That's the part I put in!
- Jane:... (continue)(continue reading)
Karen Dotrice - Jane Banks
David Tomlinson - Mr. Banks
Matthew Garber - Michael Banks

“I'm sorry, Watson, the pleasures of the chase are no longer for me. I'm through with crime now and forever.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

“- The Cat: Who's this?
- Sally: That's our babysitter.
- The Cat: So wait, you mean that you pay this woman to sit on babies? Well that's disgusting! I’d do it for nothing.”
Mike Myers - The Cat
Dakota Fanning - Sally

“- Professor Plum: What is your top-secret job, Colonel?
- Wadsworth: I can tell you. He's working on the secret of the next fusion bomb.
- Colonel Mustard: How did you know that?
- Wadsworth: Can you keep a secret?
- Colonel Mustard: Yes...
- Wadsworth: So can I.”
Chris Lloyd - Professor Plum
Tim Curry - Wadsworth
Martin Mull - Colonel Mustard

“- Drew: And who would've thought... you, an IRS agent.
- Joe Black: Death and taxes.”

Jake Weber - Drew
Brad Pitt - Joe Black

“- Abbie: He lives in Los Angeles.
- Lisa: What does he do?
- Abbie: He's a professional embarrassment.”

Billy Crystal - Abbie
JoBeth Williams - Lisa

“What's the difference between a wife and a job? After 10 years a job still sucks.”
Mel Gibson - Nick Marshall

“- Ancestor: My children never caused such trouble. They all became acupuncturists.
- Ancestor: Well, we can't all be acupuncturists.
- Ancestor: No! Your great-granddaughter had to be a cross-dresser!”
Mary Kay Bergman - Ancestor
Corey Burton - Ancestor

“- Jake Malloy: I don't get it. Why do you put yourself through this?
- McKenzie: You got family, Malloy?
- Jake Malloy: No, I don't.
- McKenzie: Neither do I, anymore. The job is all I've got.”
Sylvester Stallone - Jake Malloy
Robert Prosky - McKenzie

“Careers and higher education are leading to the masculinization of women, with enormously dangerous consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?”
Laurel Cronin - Maida Gillespie

“Some people find it ironical that although we run a travel agency, we've never been outside of Blaine.”
Fred Willard - Ron Albertson

“- Jason: You don't look like a maid.
- Gabriela: I'm not, I'm the nanny. Do I look like a nanny?
- Jason: No.”
Stephen Dorff - Jason
Jennifer Lopez - Gabriela

“If you can't get it in real life, you might as well get it on the job, right?”

Theresa Randle - Girl 6

“We each have our jobs. Now I'm a Marine. That means I do the serious work. You're a Navy pilot. That means that you sit here and... eat jello.”

Charles Malik Whitfield - Rodway

“Being Prime Minister, I could just have him murdered. The SAS are absolutely charming. Ruthless trained killers are just a phone call away.”

Hugh Grant - The Prime Minister

“- Dr. Klein: Let me ask you something. What would you do if you had to change careers?
- Roy Waller: You mean if I wasn't an antiques broker?
- Dr. Klein: If you weren't a criminal.”
Bruce Altman - Dr. Klein
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller