Job quotes

“- Mr. Ducksworth: Are you prepared to lose your job over some kids, some game?
- Bombay: That depends, sir. Are you prepared to fire me over some kids, some game?”
Josef Sommer - Gerald Ducksworth
Emilio Estevez - Gordon Bombay

“- Tom Baxter: I guess I have to get a job.
- Cecilia: That's not gonna be so easy either, right now the whole country's out of work.
- Tom Baxter: Well, then, we'll live on love. We'll have to make some concessions, but so what? We'll have each other.
- Cecilia: That's movie talk.”
Jeff Daniels - Tom Baxter
Mia Farrow - Cecilia

“There are no small jobs here. A newspaper is a daily miracle.”
Kevin Bacon - Dan Hanson

“- Tony Hawes: He doesn't do things by the book. He just doesn't respect the rules. Is he really the kind of person we should be employing at Barings?
- Ron Baker: Fuck the rules. It's barrow boys like Nick who are turning the City of London around. You can't run a modern financial centre with a bunch of Hooray Henries.”

Tim McInnerny - Tony Hawes
Nigel Lindsay - Ron Baker

“- Assistant: Well Mr. Mooney is downstairs and he is P-I-S-E-D.
- Jane: Pised?”
Selma Blair - Jane Burns

“- Kevin McCallister: I don't understand. If they were so mean to you how come you never quit working for them?
- Prescott: I know you are young and that is the most obvious solution, but jobs are not always easy to find.”

Mike Weinberg - Kevin McCallister
Erick Avari - Prescott

“Hunter wouldn't leave his camera if his grandmother was on fire.”
Walter Connolly - Gabby' MacArthur

“- Holly Golightly: What do you do, anyway?
- Paul Varjak: I'm a writer, I guess.
- Holly Golightly: You guess? Don't you know?
- Paul Varjak: Ok, positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer.”
Audrey Hepburn - Holly Golightly
George Peppard - Paul Varjak

“There's no reason to shoot at me, I'm a dentist.”
Alan Arkin - Sheldon Kornpett

“- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job.
- Igor: Could be worse.
- Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How?
- Igor: Could be raining.
[it starts to pour]”

Gene Wilder - Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
Marty Feldman - Igor

“There's about as much chance of me getting behind a desk as there is of me getting a new girlfriend.”
Warren Beatty - Dick Tracy

“- Gilbert: Bobby, how's business?
- Bobby: Oh, not good... nobody's dying.”
Johnny Depp - Gilbert Grape
Crispin Glover - Bobby McBurney

“- Richard Sharpe: Previous employment?
- Cooper: By way of a trader, sir. In... property and the like.
- Richard Sharpe: Would that be other people's property, Cooper?”
Sean Bean - Sharpe
Michael Mears - Cooper

“- Janet Beindorf: It's been 14 years and you haven't even finished the bathroom.
- Ned Beindorf: I've been working for 14 years!
- Janet Beindorf: And what's my job? Is it a hobby?”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Janet Beindorf
Kevin Pollak - Ned Beindorf

“It was summer 1948, and I needed money. After goin' door-to-door all day long, I was back again at Joppy's bar trying to figure out where I was gonna go looking for work the next day.”
Denzel Washington - Easy Rawlins

“- Anthony Powell: I'll have to ask you to pay attention to the Director.
- Terry Randall: What am I supposed to do? Walk around like a puppet or use my intelligence?
- Anthony Powell: You've to do what you're told!”
Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell
Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“- Ann August: You don't have a job in the Los Angeles school district.
- Adele August: I have an interview, and a great outfit.”
Natalie Portman - Ann August
Susan Sarandon - Adele August

“Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.”
John Cusack - Craig Schwartz

“I'm a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I'm a creator! I am a creator!”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“I had hoped to become a hero. But in St. Cloud's there was no such position. In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none.”

Sir Michael Caine - Dr. Wilbur Larch

“- Helen: Weren't you just here?
- Peg: No, not since last season. Today I've come to show our equisite new line in softer colors, in shadows blushes and lips. Everything you need to accent and highlight your changing look.
vHelen: My changing look huh thats good.
- Peg: Well it goes without saying we have a complete selection of your old...” (continue)(continue reading)
Conchata Ferrell - Helen
Dianne Wiest - Peg

“- Colonel Allen Faulkner: All right. You've got the job.
- Arthur Witty: Do I have time to get a divorce?
- Colonel Allen Faulkner: Thirty-six hours.”
Richard Burton - Colonel Allen Faulkner
Kenneth Griffith - Arthur Witty

“You know how to make a RedEye?”
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin

“I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbled into it. Or married into it, more precisely.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Ed Crane

“- Verna McLaughlin: What'd your father do?
- Roy Parmenter: Cop.
- Verna McLaughlin: Good cop or bad cop?
- Roy Parmenter: Bad cop... Wouldn't kiss ass. Good father.”
Loretta Devine - Verna McLaughlin
Sir Sidney Poitier - Roy Parmenter