Resignation quotes

“- Anton: You've gone as far as you can go. You come with me now!
- Vincent: There is still a few million miles left to go.”
Loren Dean - Anton Freeman
Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

“- Compulsive Dog: He threw the ball! Oh, he threw the ball! I'll get it! I'll get it! I love you! I love you! You threw the ball!
- Rodney: You can't save them all, Hasselhoff.”

Gilbert Gottfried - Compulsive Dog
Chris Rock - Rodney

“- Eggsy: Harry. What's going on?
- Harry Hart: I was just packing. Look at all these lovely toiletries Merlin very kindly gave me as a leaving present. Here, try this aftershave.
- Eggsy: Yeah, I know, Harry. I'm wearing it. Listen. You can't just give up.
- Harry Hart: Give up? No, on the contrary, I'm about to achieve my dream. Researching...” (continue)(continue reading)
Taron Egerton - Eggsy
Colin Firth - Harry Hart

“There are times when I want to get out of the business. Everybody wants to make these big epic entertainments. They're empty. And worst of all, a lot of them just aren't very well made, but the critics go overboard.”
Burt Lancaster

“Sometimes to do what's right we must be steady and give up the things we desire the most, even our dreams.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker

“I'm getting married, Walter, and I'm also getting as far away from the newspaper business as I can get.”

Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“Any show of resistance would be futile, Captain.”
Leonard Nimoy - Spock

“The only way to resign from our profession is to die.”
Lewis Stone - Andriani

“I wish I could tell you we can prevent the coming destruction. We cannot. Today, none of us are strangers. Today, we are one family, stepping into the darkness together.”

Danny Glover - President Thomas Wilson

“- Javert: Monsieur, a grave violation of the public trust has been committed. An inferior has shown a complete lack of respect for the law. He must be exposed and punished.
- Valjean: Who is the offender?
- Javert: I am. I slandered you Monsieur Le Maire, I'm here to ask that you demand my dismissal.”
Geoffrey Rush - Javert
Liam Neeson - Valjean

“Thirty years ago that girl you talked to probably would have married her fiancé because it would have been expected, but she ended up leaving him. Maybe that's what the 60's were all about... getting rid of the roles. But what do we replace them with? Without any guidance, the choices become overwhelming. Sometimes it just makes everything feel...” (continue)(continue reading)
Mark McClain Wilson - Duncan

“Take comfort in knowing you never had a choice.”
Tom Cruise - Vincent

“- Plio: What is your fate?
- Bruton: To die here. It's the way things are.
- Plio: Only if you give up. It's your choice, not your fate.”

Alfre Woodard - Plio
Peter Siragusa - Bruton

You're under contract to the "Star" for five more years. You're not in the position to resign. Unless you wish to retire from journalistic efforts over that period.

Walter Connolly - Oliver Stone

- Mr. Gordon: You're fired.
- Lawrence "Larry" Stevens: You can't fire me. I quit.
George Cleveland - Mr. Gordon
Dick Powell - Lawrence "Larry" Stevens

“Monsters! Space people! Mad doctors! They didn't teach me about such things in the police academy! And yet that's all I've been assigned to since I became on active duty! Why do I always get picked for these screwy details all the time? I resign.”
Paul Marco - Kelton

“I'm through. After one year and 25 jobs in New York, Susan Applegate is signing off. Signing off and going right back where she came from.”

Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate

“I know how you're feeling. You lost two men in Berlin and you want it to mean something, but nothing Bourne gives you will bring your men back. Nothing in those files makes their sacrifice worthwile. You have to let go. We're professionals, when an operation goes bad, we tie it off.”

Brian Cox - Ward Abbott

“I must pronounce our solemn farewell. Under these circumstances, of course, my functions - and those of my colleagues - terminate here.”
Morris Ankrum - Jefferson Davis

“- Mrs. Ryan: So is this a funny little visit, or are you home for good?
- Charlie: Nah, don't worry. Don't worry. It's just a little visit.
- Mrs. Ryan: What happened? Fired again?
- Charlie: No, this time... this time I quit.”
Kathleen Doyle - Mrs. Ryan
Edward Burns - Charlie

-Walter Burns: You're a newspaperman.
- Hildy Johnson: That's why I'm quitting. I want to go someplace where I can be a woman.
- Walter Burns: You mean "be a traitor".

Cary Grant - Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell - Hildy Johnson

“- Freedonia's Secretary of War #1: That's the last straw, I resign! I wash my hands of the whole business!
- Rufus T. Firefly: Good idea, you can wash your neck, too!”

Edwin Maxwell - Freedonia's Secretary of War #1
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“- Aunt Fanny: Fighting never solved anything.
- Bigweld: Quitting's not so productive, either.”
Jennifer Coolidge - Aunt Fanny
Mel Brooks - Bigweld

“- Ginger: So laying eggs all your life and then getting plucked, stuffed, and roasted is good enough for you, is it?
- Babs: It's a livin'.”
Julia Sawalha - Ginger
Jane Horrocks - Babs

“Maybe she was just tired of dead ends, phone calls that were never returned, promises that were never kept, tripping over the same stone.”
Cameron Diaz - Carol Faber