Working quotes

“I only work every fifth day. Hell else am I supposed to do with my time?”

Viggo Mortensen - Eddie Boone

“I must restrain my farts and do something altogether more productive.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Merivel

“- Angela McCourt: If I were able I would go to work in the English factories.
- Malachy: Factory's no place for a woman, Angela.
- Angela McCourt: Sittin' on your arse is no place for a man, Malachy.”
Emily Watson - Angela McCourt
Robert Carlyle - Malachy (Dad)

“- Manicurist: What line of work are you in then?
- Jack Manfred: I'm an undertaker.”
Sheila Whitfield - Manicurist
Clive Owen - Jack Manfred

“You don't know what it's like, Bone, getting out on your own, then being dragged back home. You wait a few years, get yourself a sweetheart, a job that pays your own money, stuff you like to do that your mama says is silly or sinful. Just about everything I like in this world is silly or sinful. But then, mama, I don't care. I got my car and I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christina Ricci - Dee Dee

“- Sister Mary Clarence: Hey Father Thomas, what's happenin'?
- Father Thomas: What's happening is I've been sent to deliver a message like I'm working for Western Union instead of the Roman Catholic Church.”
Whoopi Goldberg - Sister Mary Clarence
Brad Sullivan - Father Thomas

“If there's one thing I've learned about all my years watching Earth, is that people aren't what they may seem. There are shop boys, and there are boys who just happen to work in a shop for the time being.”
Claire Danes - Yvaine

- Miner Weber: You still in high school?
- Kelly Ernswiler: Yeah, I am. But I also moonlight as a stock boy over at the Shop Ease. And President Dawn Cominsky says every employee's part owner, so I guess you could say I'm a captain of industry in training. Sort of, um, a "capitalist larvae".
Anson Mount - Miner Weber
Shia LaBeouf - Kelly Ernswiler

“- Cliff Vandercave: Do you know what we do up here?
- Fred Flintstone: Well, me and the guys have always wondered.
- Cliff Vandercave: We interface, Flintstone. We conceptualize, tenderize, prioritize.
- Fred Flintstone: When do we eat?”
Kyle MacLachlan - Cliff Vandercave
John Goodman - Fred Flintstone

- Scott Crossfield: You want a pilot to become a balistic missile. And then splash down - possibly get lost at sea.
- Pancho Barnes: See, some peckerwood's gotta get the thing up. And some peckerwood's gotta land the son of a bitch. And that "peckerwood" is called a "pilot".
Scott Wilson - Scott Crossfield
Kim Stanley - Pancho Barnes

“People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live.”
Gary Cooper - Longfellow Deeds

“- Preacher: Why don't you put me to work?
- Hull Barret: Oh no, I couldn't ask you to, uh... Well, I mean, ya know - maybe if there was somethin' spiritual.
- Preacher: Well, that Spirit ain't worth spit without a little exercise. Now you tell me where.”
Clint Eastwood - Preacher
Michael Moriarty - Hull Barret

“Father had just one reason for ever starting this unfortunate enterprise: vanity.”

Mary Field - Miss Totten

“- Dad: I have to work.
- Walter: But it's Saturday!
- Dad: Tell me about it.”
Tim Robbins - Dad
Josh Hutcherson - Walter

“Listen guys, I've got two jobs. I work here, and I have another job at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I'm doing it to put a kid through NYU, so he can explore his bisexuality and become a DJ.”
Michael Keaton - Captain Gene Mauch

“If you meet me back here in 1 hour, I will prove to you why you hired me... even though I wouldn't sleep with you.”
Julia Roberts - Isabel Kelly

“- Glinda: Well done, Tinker, your machine works beautifully.
- Master Tinker: That's just workmanship. What you displayed was true courage.”
Michelle Williams - Glinda
Bill Cobbs - Master Tinker

“- Alex Owens: I told you, I don't think it's a good idea to go out with the boss.
- Nick Hurley: Ok. Have it your way. You're fired. I'll pick you up tomorrow at eight.”
Jennifer Beals - Alex Owens
Michael Nouri - Nick Hurley

“I think it's romantic to work for free, it's like a Cinderella situation!”
Jessica Coles - Arielle

“I got a fax from Miranda Priestly herself... saying that of all the assistants she's ever had... you were, by far, her biggest disappointment. And, if I don't hire you, I am an idiot. You must have done something right.”
John Rothman - Editor

“- Tony Stark: Hmmm. Your eyes are red. Tears for your long lost boss?
- Pepper Potts: Tears of joy. I hate job hunting.
- Tony Stark: Yeah, well, vacation's over.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark
Gwyneth Paltrow - Pepper Potts

“- Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit: If you please sir, why open the office tomorrow? Other businesses will be closed; there'll be no one to do business with. It'll waste a lot of expensive coal for the fire!
- Scrooge: It's a poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every December the 25th. But as I seem to be the only man who knows that... take...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Whitmire - Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit
Sir Michael Caine - Scrooge

“- Bart Simpson: I'm done working. Working is for chumps.
- Homer Simpson: Son, I'm proud of you. I was twice your age before I figured that out.”
Nancy Cartwright - Bart Simpson
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“- Emmy: I just wish you didn't look so worried.
- Jonathan Switcher: That's easy for you to say. You're a mannequin, you'll always have work.”
Kim Cattrall - Emmy
Andrew McCarthy - Jonathan Switcher

“- Robert Angier: I thought you said I'd have to get my hands dirty.
- Cutter: Maybe someday you will; I just needed to know that you could.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier
Sir Michael Caine - Cutter