Layoff quotes

“- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: What the hell are you doing here?
- Cadet Laverne Hooks: I wanna be a police officer.
- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: What? I can't hear you-u?
- Cadet Laverne Hooks: [whispering] I wanna be a police officer.
- Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris: Don't unpack.”
G.W. Bailey - Captain Harris
Marion Ramsey - Laverne Hooks

“- Trailer Manager: I want you out! Now! Tonight! I let you live here, you're six months behind on rent and now you drive me and everyone else crazy with that damn guitar playing of yours!
- Angel Martin: Someday I'm gonna be so famous that people are gonna stand in line to hear my play!”
Yankee Sulivan - Trailer Manager
Stephen Quadros - Angel Martin

“- Bill Rorish: This is a brutal layoff. And all because they couldn't program Wednesday nights.
- Paul Moore: You can make it less brutal by knocking a million or so off your salary... Bad joke, I'm sorry.”
Jack Nicholson - Bill Rorish
Peter Hackes - Paul Moore

“I read a book once which said this: If you're fired from your job, when you're going home, take something. A pencil... Something to assert yourself. Take a memento. Take something from life.”
Joe Mantegna - Mike

“- Steven Jacobs: You used an untested drug on your father. I could end your career with one phone call.
- Will Rodman: Let me save you the trouble. I quit.”
David Oyelowo - Steven Jacobs
James Franco - Will Rodman

“- Lieutenant Andrew Tyler: He torpedoed me, Chief. Nine months aboard the S-33 doing the best job I know how. Doing everything once, and then doing it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything the first time.
- Chief Klough: You'll get your chance, sir. There's other commands in the navy.”
Matthew McConaughey - Lt. Andrew Tyler
Harvey Keitel - CPO Henry Klough

“- Watt: She's got a magnificent pair of lungs.
- Geddes: Oh, yes. A great asset. Five degrees in Oceanography and a very talented programmer. I'll get rid of her when she surfaces. She's not in on this Ferness thing yet. Actually she's better in the field.”

Alex Norton - Watt
Rikki Fulton - Geddes

“- Stephanie Kaplan: I remember I had a friend. She was one of the first women who moved really high up. You know what it's like in the high rooms - every day putting out fires, but it turns out, the job wasn't anything she thought it was, and she was looking the wrong way when they fired her.
- Tom Sanders: Interesting.
- Stephanie Kaplan: The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rosemary Forsyth - Stephanie Kaplan
Michael Douglas - Tom Sanders

“- Stanley: I got fired today!
- Eugene Morris Jerome: Fired? You mean for good?
- Stanley: You don't get fired temporarily. It's a permanent lifetime firing.”
Brian Drillinger - Stanley
Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“- Ritchie: That's it. You're fired.
- Isabel Bigelow: Doesn't matter... I quit! Yeah, so you better call my agent.
- Jim Fields: You don't have an agent.
- Isabel Bigelow: Then call my cable man!”
Jason Schwartzman - Ritchie
Nicole Kidman - Isabel Bigelow

“- Ron Anderson: Listen, Dexter, is there something troubling you? Something that you would like to talk to someone about?
- Dexter King: Well, yes, as a matter of fact there is...
- Ron Anderson: Then for fuck's sake talk to someone about it, will you? And sort it out before I sack you and hire a lobotomized monkey to play your role. Okay?”
Rowan Atkinson - Ron Anderson
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King

“- Sally Eastman: I don't think we can do this anymore. Come to the same office everyday.
- Vincent Eastman: You're right. You're fired.”

Sharon Stone - Sally Eastman
Richard Tiffany Gere - Vincent Eastman

“- Paul Moore: If there's anything I can do for you...
- Employee: Well, I certainly hope you'll die soon.”

Peter Hackes - Paul Moore

“I got fired yesterday for filming up my boss's skirt. I told her it was for a documentary called what the ground sees. Oddly enough, she didn't buy it.”
Josh Gad - Neil

“- Charles 'Chuck' Lane: You're fired, Steve.
- Stephen Glass: What?
- Charles 'Chuck' Lane: You're fired, Steve. You've lost your job.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Hayden Christensen - Stephen Glass

“You can't fire me, you owe me money, and you better pay it or I'll go to the roof and turn this place into an insurance claim.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Moberg

“- M: This private vendetta of yours could easily compromise Her Majesty's government. You have an assignment, and I expect you to carry it out objectively and professionally!
- James Bond: Then you have my resignation, sir!
- M: We're not a country club, 007! Effective immediately, your licence to kill is revoked, and I require you to hand over...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Brown - M
Timothy Dalton - James Bond

“- Patience Philips: I'm sorry!
- George Hedare: Sorry? Sorry is not nearly enough!
- Patience Philips: Ok, then lemme try the remix. I'm sorry for every second I wasted working for an untalented, unethical, egomaniac like you!
- George Hedare: Clean out your cubicle. You are fired.”
Halle Berry - Patience Phillips
Lambert Wilson - George Hedare

“- Tim O'Hara: O'Hara here, leave a message, keep it short.
- Mr. Channing: Channing here, you're fired. Short enough for you?”
Jeff Daniels - Tim O'Hara
Michael Lerner - Mr. Channing

“Dead? No excuse for laying off work.”
Ralph David Richardson - Supreme Being

“- Mary Fisher: Ute, where are you going?
- Ute: I took this job because I only had to cook and clean for one person and one dog. Then I get the mother, the lover, his kids and their dog. Miss Fisher, up with this bullshit I will not put. I quit!”

Meryl Streep - Mary Fisher
Susan Willis - Ute

“- Harry Callahan: Are you suspending me, sir?
- Police Commissioner: No, I'm saying you take a vacation until this cools off.
- Harry Callahan: But I'm not up for a vacation!
- Police Commissioner: Callahan, I'm not going to fence with you. Take a few days off.”
Clint Eastwood - Harry Callahan
Bill Reddick - Police Commissioner

“What you're saying is it wasn't enough to fire me for no good reason. Now you question my integrity? On top of the humiliation of being fired, you threaten me? You threaten my family? It never crossed my mind not to honor my agreement. And I will tell you, Mr. Sandefur... and Brown & Williamson too - fuck me? Well, fuck you!”
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand

“- Mr. Slate: Gentlemen, please, I can't endorse this modernization if it means laying off all those workers. Some of them have been here since the beginning of time.
- Cliff Vandercave: What if I could quadruple your income?
- Mr. Slate: I'll miss them. You were saying?”
Dann Florek - Mr. Slate
Kyle MacLachlan - Cliff Vandercave

“As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am fucking fired!”
Cary Elwes - John Houseman