Job quotes

“I fight against Fascism. That is my trade.”

Paul Lukas - Kurt Muller

“- Kurt Bozwell: From now on, your life is Mondo Burger! You can forget about your friends; you can forget about your family... because Kurt is now both your mother and your father.
- Dexter Reed: Kurt must look awfully strange naked.”
Jan Schweiterman - Kurt Bozwell
Kenan Thompson - Dexter Reed

“- Reggie Hammond: Man, you loaded here. What the fuck's this?
- Torchy's Patron: Tax refund!
- Reggie Hammond: Bullshit! You're too fuckin' stupid to have a job!”

Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
Nick Dimitri - Torchy's Patron

“- Jack: In all the years you've been doing this, what's the biggest gamble you ever took? On job, the biggest long shot?
- Nick: I don't take long shots and I never have.”
Edward Norton - Jack Teller
Robert De Niro - Nick Wells

“- Kuzco: Oh, and by the way, you're fired.
- Yzma: Fired? W-W-What do you mean, fired?
- Kuzco: Um, how else can I say it? You're being let go. Your department's being downsized. You're part of an outplacement. We're going in a different direction. We're not picking up your option. Take your pick. I got more.”
David Spade - Kuzco
Eartha Kitt - Yzma

“- Private Drake: They ain't paying us enough for this, man.
- Corporal Dietrich: Not enough to have to wake up to your face, Drake.
- Private Drake: What? Is that a joke?
- Corporal Dietrich: Oh, I wish it were.”
Mark Rolston - Private Drake
Cynthia Dale Scott - Corporal Dietrich

“- Dave: Hell, I don't want to go to college Dad. To hell with them. I'm proud of being a cutter.
- Dad: You're not a cutter. I'm a cutter.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Paul Dooley - Dad

“- Danny: I-I-I also got a job that pays money.
- Carla: Really?
- Danny: I bake cookies at Emil's Bakery.I got a cookie maker's hat and everything.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Danny
Juliette Lewis - Carla

“- Fred Ayres: He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.
- Honey Hale: And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.”
Fred Astaire - Fred Ayres
Ginger Rogers - Honey Hale

“- Romy White: So, what do you do?
- Suit Salesman: I'm a suit salesman.
- Romy White: Would you excuse me? I cut my foot before and my shoe is filling up with blood.”
Mira Sorvino - Romy White
Paul Keeley - Suit Salesman

“- Welfare Officer: A writer. You're a writer?
- Danny: I'm a writer.
- Welfare Officer: I worked at Burger King for three years before getting this job. I've got an arts degree. If we get you a job that says you lick toilet bowls, then that's what you do, you lick toilet bowls. A writer. Jesus.”
Noah Taylor - Danny

“The only real challenge with this job is trying to look busy when there's nothing to do.”
Parker Posey - Margaret Burre

“Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?”
George Clooney - Everett

“- Boss Tom Prendergast: I've got a job for you.
- Harry S. Truman: Well, that's mighty nice of you. What's the job, dog-catcher?
- Boss Tom Prendergast: How would you like to run for Congress?
- Harry S. Truman: Well, Jesus Christ and General Jackson. The answer's yes.”
Pat Hingle - Boss Tom Pendergast
Gary Sinise - Harry S. Truman

“- Female Interviewer: Last place of employment?
- Nada: Denver, Colorado. I worked there for ten years and things just seemed to dry up. They lost fourteen banks in one week. So, well...
- Female Interviewer: There's nothing available for you right now.”
Lucille Meredith - Female Interviewer
Roddy Piper - Nada

“- Philly: If you're gonna get a new job, you're going to need a letter of reference, from my father.
- Mallow: Well, your father might not think I've been working long enough.
- Philly: I didn't mean for him to write it. But, I know what he'd say if he knew you as well as I do: she was passionate about her household duties.”
Eric Brown - Philly
Sylvia Kristel - Mallow

“- Mr. Pink: But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
- Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
- Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn't anything special.
- Mr. Blue: What's special? Take you in the back and suck your dick?
- Nice Guy Eddie: I'd go over twelve percent for that.”

Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Edward Bunker - Mr. Blue
Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie

“- Chief J.J. Kilvaine: If this doesn't send me back to pounding pavement on Billy Goat Hill, I'm an eskimo!
- Charlie Chan: Not necessary to take such icy view of situation.”

Donald MacBride - Chief J.J. Kilvaine
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“- Seymour Parrish: Nikon... that's a really nice camera.
- Nina Yorkin: Really? Because Bill keeps trying to get me to go digital and...
- Seymour Parrish: Oh no, don't do that! I'd... I'd be out of a job.”

Robin Williams - Seymour Parrish
Connie Nielsen - Nina Yorkin

“- Alex Mason, Sr.: This is the bodyguard?
- Frank Olsen: Terrible mistake, sir. I'll get rid of him immediately.
- Alex Mason, Sr.: Wrong! He's incredible. Obviously a real pro.”

Robert Hy Gorman - Alex Mason, Jr.
Raymond O'Connor - Frank Olsen

“- Jack Byrnes: Greg's in medicine too.
- Dr. Bob Banks: What field?
- Greg Focker: Nursing.
- Dr. Bob Banks: Ha ha ha ha. No, really, what field are you in?
- Greg Focker: Nursing.”
Robert De Niro - Jack Byrnes
Tom McCarthy - Dr. Bob Banks
Ben Stiller - Greg Focker

“- Mrs. B: Brett is a very nice hard working man. I wish the two of you were more like Brett Weir.
- Johnny: Ah, come on. It's not like we ain't had jobs. What about the mason's job we had a ways back?”
Suzanne Shepherd - Mrs. B
John G. Brennan - Himself

“My father, gentlemen, claims that the government has neither wisdom nor humanity. I will then consider it my duty as my father's son to bring both wisdom and humanity to the United states' Congress. I thank you for your blessing, father.”
Aidan Quinn - Alfred Ludlow

“Acting is the hardest profession in the world.”
Jim Moody - Farrell

“- Steve: So, you took Warner, eh?
- Patch Gallagher: Yeah, I know she's not so hot, but with all the real talent going Hollywood, you've got to make the best of what you can get.”

Clark Gable - Patch Gallagher