Working quotes

“- 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

“My only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.”
Ron Livingston - Peter

“- Kumar Patel: Harold Lee, I'd like to introduce you to an invention of mine... meet the smokeless bong.
- Harold Lee: You made this?
- Kumar Patel: You know I did. When you were slaving away at work, I was actually being a productive member of society.”
Kal Penn - Kumar Patel
John Cho - Harold Lee

“When you're shoveling manure you really find out which way the wind is blowing.”
George Segal - Walter Whitney

“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and the job's a game!”
Julie Andrews - Mary Poppins

“- Chris Larson: Eureka! I created a program that can play blackjack.
- Bill Gates: Chris, you've been here two days, and you're into blackjack?
- Chris Larson: Yeah, so?
- Bill Gates: So we've got work to do.”
Marc Worden - Chris Larson
Anthony Michael Hall - Bill Gates

“- Steve: The only thing I don't like about this stealing business is the hard work.
- Trampas: Hard work but easy pickings.”
Richard Arlen - Steve
Walter Huston - Trampas

“- Dave Moss: He's the top man on the board so he doesn't have to sit here and listen to this shit?
- Williamson: That's correct! And as the hour is waning I suggest you those of you who are interested in a continuing job with this organization, get to work!”

Ed Harris - Dave Moss
Kevin Spacey - John Williamson

“You better get your ass off your shoulders and make that money.”
Ice Cube - Craig Jones

“We have to keep these guys in Virgil, even though they do leave VeriCorp. For the time being, it's created confusion! And chaos! They don't work for money anymore, but to earn a place in Heaven, which is a big motivating factor once upon a time, believe you me. They're working and inventing because they like it! Economics is become a spiritual...” (continue)(continue reading)
Spalding Gray - Earl Culver

“- 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

“You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulders. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You... You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves

“- Fred Flintstone: This is my office? This is my chair?
- Cliff Vandercave: Yeah, not to throw too much at you on your first day, but this big thing here is your desk.
- Fred Flintstone: My desk?”
John Goodman - Fred Flintstone
Kyle MacLachlan - Cliff Vandercave

“- Adam Tallis: Don't turn away. Come here tomorrow.
- Alice: I have to work.
- Adam Tallis: Then come back tonight.
- Alice: I can't.
- Adam Tallis: Whenever you want, Alice. You decide, and I'll be here.”
Joseph Fiennes - Adam Tallis
Heather Graham - Alice

“Too bad that all the people who really know how to run this country are busy driving taxi cabs or cutting hair.”
George Burns

“- Lorenzo: The other night he tried to throw away his baseball cards because he said Mickey Mantle would never pay our rent.
- Sonny: [laughs] He said that to you? I can't believe that kid.
- Lorenzo: That's not funny. Not when your kid has a bigger bank account than you do.”

Robert De Niro - Lorenzo
Chazz Palminteri - Sonny

“- Jimmy Jump: I wanna know who I'm selling drugs to, you know what I mean?
- Joey Dalesio: You don't sell drugs, my brother. You shoot people.
- Jimmy Jump: Yo, I'm unemployed. Ain't nobody left.”
Laurence Fishburne - Jimmy Jump
Paul Calderon - Joey Dalesio

“- Gordy: My mom says the guy who's taking us has hiked all over the world.
- Barnhill: I'm sure he won't be half as good as the guy me and my dad had on our trip to the Serengeti.
- Ralph: Barnhill, if you're dad is so friggin' cool, then why isn't he our scout leader?
- Barnhill: Oh yeah. Spies have a lot of time for the scouts.”
Blake Bashoff - Gordy
Max Goldblatt - Barnhill
Corey Carrier - Ralph

“Hurley works there, you think he'd work there if he was gonna get the cancer?”
Cher - Dolly Pelliker

“- Arthur Sullivan: May I remind you, Helen, that I am not a machine.
- Helen Lenoir: I would not suggest for one moment that you were.
- Arthur Sullivan: You all seem to be treating me as a barrel-organ. You have but to turn my handle, and hey presto! Out pops a tune.”
Allan Corduner - Arthur Sullivan
Wendy Nottingham - Helen Lenoir

“- Danny Roman: You working?
- Chris Sabian: Sort of. I was negotiating a truce between my wife and daughter.
- Danny Roman: Then I'm proved to be easy by comparison.
- Chris Sabian: It wouldn't surprise me in the least.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Danny Roman
Kevin Spacey - Chris Sabian

“I have an ulcer, I don't sleep well, mostly because you keep calling me in the middle of the night, and if you don't call me I dream that you're gonna call me.”

Sandra Bullock - Lucy Kelson

“I ain't gonna kill him. I'm just gonna take a foot off of him. A man can work with one foot.”
Bruce Willis - Harry S. Stamper

- Ann Bishop Mullany: What kind of "personal project"?
- Graham Dalton: A personal project like anyone else's personal project. Mine's just a little more... personal, I guess.

Andie MacDowell - Ann Bishop Mullany
Laura San Giacomo - Cynthia Patrice Bishop

“- Dr. Ellison: What did you do in the fire department?
- Joe: Well... I put out fires.”
Robert Stack - Dr. Ellison
Tom Hanks - Joe