Job quotes

“If Florence Nightingale had ever nursed you, Mr. Whiteside, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross!”

Mary Wickes - Miss Preen

“- Lou Bloom: Why hire you? Sell yourself. Go.
- Rick: Okay. Well, I'm Rick, of course. I took three buses to get here. I finished high school. I need a job. I'll do just about anything. That's me. Hire Rick.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom
Riz Ahmed - Rick

“- Steve Zissou: I hope you're not gonna bust our chops on this on, Bill.
- Bill Ubell: Why would I do that?
- Steve Zissou: Because you're a bond company stooge.
- Bill Ubell: I'm also a human being.”
Bill Murray - Steve Zissou
Bud Cort - Bill Ubell

“- Mike McKinney: I got another job.
- David Ghantt: No kiddin', what are you doin'?
- Mike McKinney: Tax preparation.
- David Ghantt: Oh, are ya? That's nice.
- Mike McKinney: Naw, I'm just foolin'. It's gonna be more murder.”
Jason Sudeikis - Mike McKinney
Zach Galifianakis - David Ghantt

“- Frank Horrigan: What were to happen if I gave up my job for you?
- Lilly Raines: Why would you do that?
- Frank Horrigan: Well, maybe I vowed to never again let my career come between me and a woman.”
Clint Eastwood - Frank Horrigan
Rene Russo - Lilly Raines

“- Dominika Egorova: Are you a patriot?
- Nate Nash: No.
- Dominika Egorova: Why do you do what you do?
- Nate Nash: It beats selling tires.
- Dominika Egorova: Have you ever sold tires?
- Nate Nash: No.
- Dominika Egorova: Then you can't know, can you?”
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova
Joel Edgerton - Nate Nash

“- Squirrel: Who's that in the bedroom?
- Squirrel's Father: Huh?... Oh, her. Met her in a waffle house in Fort Worth.
- Squirrel: It's good to see that your job huntin' isn't interfering with the really important things in life, like pickin' up strange women.”
Ethan Embry - Squirrel
Keith Szarabajka - Squirrel's Father

“- Cravely: You tell me to go fuck myself and I'm supposed to apologize. You break my window, I'm supposed to apologize?
- Gust Avrakotos: The Helsinki job was mine!
- Cravely: The Helsinki job was not yours. If it was yours, you'd be in Helsinki.”
John Slattery - Cravely
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Gust Avrakotos

“So you lost your job? I've lost twenty of them since graduation. Plus a wife and kid. And, in a new development this morning, a handful of hair in the shower drain.”
Rob Lowe - Billy Hicks

“- Neighborhood Resident: I’ve seeing you carrying all these books around, I figured you for some kind of teacher.
- Robert McCall: I’m a high level paid former assassin.”
Ralph Ayala - Neighborhood Resident
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall

“- Audrey Griswold: Uh, don't take this personally, Vicki; but being a farmer isn't too cool you know.
- Cousin Vicki: Oh, yeah? Well, how cool is this?
[reaches under her bed and pulls out a shoebox full of marijuana]”
Dana Barron - Audrey Griswold
Jane Krakowski - Cousin Vicki

“Being an actor's no different than being a rugby player or construction worker, save for the fact that my tools are the mechanisms which trigger human emotion.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Kirk Lazarus

"Wit" is not a requirement of the job. Brutality, yes. An ability to inflict pain, absolutely. A certain psychotic moral ignorance, blind obedience, all required. But not wit.
Alessandro Gassmann - Gianni Chellini

“- Saul Silver: What's up with the suit?
- Dale Denton: Oh, I'm a process server, so I have to wear a suit.
- Saul Silver: Wow, you're a servant? Like a butler? A chauffeur?
- Dale Denton: No, no. What? No, I'm not like...
- Saul Silver: Shine shoes?
- Dale Denton: I'm a process server!”
James Franco - Saul Silver
Seth Rogen - Dale Denton

- Frieda Aglet: What does the name "Aglet" mean anyway?
- Braydon Aglet : Well a long time ago "Aglet' meant "he who puts those tiny little plastic things on shoelaces", you see a long time a go a man's name was his profession.
- Frieda Aglet: Oh so a man named Fred Carpenter would build houses and John Baker would make bread.
- Braydon Aglet :... (continue)(continue reading)
Dove Dellos - Frieda Aglet
Thom Sharp - Braydon Aglet
Benj Thall - Ned Aglet

“They fired him. He killed himself. They fired me. They fired men like flushing shit down a toilet. Well... this time the shit is fighting back.”
Jude Law - Robinson

“Believe me, the irony of being a blind art dealer isn't lost on me.”
Stephen Root - Jim Hudson

“I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a gift, it's revenge.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Winston Churchill

“We are all now officially international drug smugglers. Add it to the resume.”
Jason Sudeikis - David Clark

“There are 50,000 people walking around calling themselves actors and maybe 500 are making a living at it. Most of those do commercials to pay the rent. The rest wait tables, clean other people's apartments, living on welfare and hope.”
Jim Moody - Farrell

“- Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
- Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
- Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.”
Robert De Niro - Harry Tuttle
Jonathan Pryce - Sam Lowry

“To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall.”
Shizuko Hoshi - Sayuri Narration

“Only thing you need to know is the job's real, and the money's real.”
Bruce Willis - Mr. Church

I ran casino. I've got to figure what I'm going to do next because I'm not a lottery winner. I tried "slinging crack rock" and I never had a jump shot, I've got to find a job.
Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis

“- Nubie: You always run the ball! Why can't I run the ball?
- Hanon: Because you're slow, and no one likes you.”
Matthew McCurley - Nubie
Troy Simmons - Hanon