Job quotes

“What I do for a living may not be very reputable... but I am. In this town I'm the leper with the most fingers.”

Jack Nicholson - Jake Gittes

“- Oliver: Now why did you hire a veterinarian?
- Stan: I didn't think his religion would make any difference.”
Oliver Hardy - Oliver
Stan Laurel - Stan

“It pays to be a killer in this country.”
Ritchie Coster - News Stand Vendor

“- Scotty Brennen: Listen, what're you tryin' to do, get us all fired? You gotta pace yourself, slowly, slowly.
- Josh: It's my first day.
- Scotty Brennen: I know!”

Jon Lovitz - Scotty Brennen
Tom Hanks - Josh

“I'm not an astronaut. I'm an engineer. What am I'm doing here?”
John Lithgow - Dr. Walter Curnow

“- Ellen Griswold: Gee Cath looks like you really got your hands full.
- Cousin Catherine: Oh, it's not so bad. Eddie says after the baby comes, I can quit one of my night jobs.”
Beverly D'Angelo - Ellen Griswold
Miriam Flynn - Cousin Catherine

“- Kevin Flynn: Hey Ram, what were you, you know, before?
- Ram: I was an actuarial program. Worked for a big insurance company. It really gives you a great feeling helping folks plan for their future needs. Of course, if you take the payments as an annuity over the years, the cost is really quite minimal.”
Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn
Dan Shor - Ram

“- Ellen Mitchell: What do you do for a living?
- Dave Kovic: When I'm not running the country?
- Ellen Mitchell: Yeah.
- Dave Kovic: I run a temp agency. You know, secretaries and stuff.
- Ellen Mitchell: So you find people jobs.”

Sigourney Weaver - Ellen Mitchell
Kevin Kline - Dave Kovic

“A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing.”

John C. Reilly - Officer Jim Kurring

“We live this job. It's something we are, not something we do! Every time a cop walks up to a car and has to give a speeding ticket, he know he may have to kill someone or be killed himself.”
James Woods - John Moss

“- Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here.
- Lester Burnham: I have fast food experience.
- Mr. Smiley's Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago!
- Lester Burnham: Well, I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Anderson - Mr. Smiley's Manager
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“My job, sir, is to evaluate radiation hazards to United States Army personnel. My wife's not enlisted in the Army. Why doesn't the colonel concern himself with the safety of men who are, rather than the mammaries of women who are not?”
Tommy Lee Jones - Hank Marshall

- Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil: Your job here is to re-align the star gate. Can you do that or not?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: I can't.
Kurt Russell - Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil
James Spader - Dr. Daniel Jackson

“- Sgt. Al Powell: What's the matter? You don't think jockeying papers around a desk is a noble effort for a cop?
- John McClane: No.”
Reginald VelJohnson - Sgt. Al Powell
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“You know what you think about when you’re lying here. You know you’re going to die. You think it’s alright. You lived a long time. You had a family that loved you. You had a job that you thought made a difference, that you thought was honorable.”

James Earl Jones - Admiral Greer

“I don't think you should take that job. Piano players are sexy, salesmen are uncles.”
Annabeth Gish - Tracy Stover

“- Biff Loman: I tell you Happy, I don't know what the future is. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: What do you mean?
- Biff Loman: I spent six or seven years after High School trying to work myself up, being a shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Biff Loman
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman

“If we all do our jobs, we will each be rewarded according to our just desserts.”
Ben Gazzara - Klein

“- Sam Kamin: That's my job. I find people to be in movies.
- Max Zamphirescu: They pay for this? That's so stupid!
- Sam Kamin: You've been talking to my father, haven't you!”
Billy Crystal - Sam 'Sammy' Kamin
Gheorghe Muresan - Max Zamphirescu

“The only real truth is the work.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“- Cammie: I'm Cammie, the Russian tease.
- Violet Sanford: Violet, the Jersey nun.
- Cammie: That one's Rachel, the New York bitch. We all play our little parts. Only Rachel really is a bitch, and I really am a tease.”

Izabella Miko - Cammie
Piper Perabo - Violet Sanford

“Today, it's all cut and dried, and there's no chance for bringing friendship to bear or personality. You see what I mean? They don't know me anymore.”

Dustin Hoffman - William 'Willy' Loman

“I've been offered a choice between no job and a job no one would want.”
Jack Nicholson - Will Randall

“- Beck: You're really a college professor? You're not from the CIA, the NSA or any of those three letter places?
- Josh: No, I am a boring college professor.”
Hilary Swank - Beck
Aaron Eckhart - Josh

“We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.”
John C. McGinley - Bob Slydell