Working quotes

“No-one ever wished on their death-bed that they'd spent more time at the office!”
Briony Glassco - Maria

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
Woody Allen

“There's a time to shirk, and a time to work.”
Danny DeVito - Bobby Ciaro

“This guy? Drove one of the gas vans. They'd load the Jews in back, run the exhaust inside. By the time they got where they were going, they were already dead. Very efficient. Driving to work, he killed more people than Al Capone in all his years in Chicago. But if you asked him, he isn't a murderer, he's a truck driver. And he still thinks that.”
Leland Orser - Bernie

“Your orders are to facilitate the job of this scientific team! This is a civilian team, and we don't have to be subjected to your tyranny.”

John Amplas - Fisher

“- Joe Bradley: Tell you what. Why don't we do all those things, together?
- Princess Ann: But don't you have to work?
- Joe Bradley: Work? No. Today's gonna be a holiday.”
Gregory Peck - Joe Bradley
Audrey Hepburn - Princess Ann

“Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.”
George Burns

“- Co-Pilot Steve Bench: You're a pro. You're going places.
- Donna Jensen: You think?
- Co-Pilot Steve Bench: I'm a pilot. It's my job to know where people are going.”
Rob Lowe - Co-Pilot Steve Bench
Gwyneth Paltrow - Donna Jensen

You're twenty minutes late. You're gonna walk in there and say you overslept and didn't have time to get dressed. They're gonna pitch you. They're gonna beg you to take their money. You're gonna nod, and then you're gonna say, "Which one of you is Mitchell Manningham?" And he'll say, "I am." And then you say, "Sean Parker says, 'Fuck you'.
Justin Timberlake - Sean Parker

“Let's just say that I work for the blah blah blah, and they gave me a license to blah.”
Ashton Kutcher - Spencer

“I know how comfortable it is to curl up with a nice, fat book full of big words and think you're going to solve all the problems in the universe. But you're not, you know. A bit of action is required every now and then.”
Teresa Wright - Carol Beldon

“- Neal Oliver: Okay, so if everyone who lives here is a lawyer, how do you live? I mean, who runs the grocery store? Who does your dry-cleaning? Who fixes the shitter when it breaks?
- Valerie McCabe: Well, we all moonlight on the law-related jobs. You know, police, bailiffs, court reporters. But those other, trivial things you mentioned?...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Marsden - Neal Oliver
Deborah Odell - Valerie McCabe

- Britney: I was up all night working on new cheers.
- Winnie: You've managed to maintain a "C" average and work on new cheers? Ugh you're such an overachiever.
Hayden Panettiere - Britney
Emme Rylan - Winnie

“- Plainview: These men are working twelve hour shifts and they need their rest. If they don't have it, they start to make stupid mistakes...
- Eli Sunday: I've seen some of the men drinking. Don't you think that has something to do with it...
- Plainview: We need these men well rested to bring in this well. They can't get that if they're up here...” (continue)(continue reading)
Daniel Day-Lewis - Daniel Plainview
Paul Dano - Eli Sunday

“- 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

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link and yard by yard. Is its pattern strange to you or would you know the length of the strong coils you bear yourself? It was as full, as heavy, as long as this seven Christmas eves ago, you have labored on it since, it is a ponderous chain!”

Frank Finlay - Jacob Marley

“People can be who they want to be, as long as they're willing to work.”
Kristin Minter - Kathy

“- Dolores: If you lay one finger on me, I'll kill you.
- Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again.
- Dolores: Nobody's going to keep me from working in this town.”
Kathleen Turner - Dolores Benedict
Steve Martin - Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr

“Saudis, like Americans, don't do manual labor.”
Sarah Hunley - Maddy Ripon

“They'd rather some people die for your mistake than that they lived but that they lacked a leader.”

Armand Assante - Carol D'Allesandro

“It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.”
Bette Davis

“Well, if you're espousing a philosophy, which apparently you are, that the corporation owes employees cradle-to-the-grave security, I don't think that can be accomplished under a free enterprise system.”
Tom Kay - Himself

“You're a Coalwood boy! You get down there, get that shovel in your hands, coaldust on your neck, feel just as natural as a tick on a dog.”
David Dwyer - Jake Mosby

“- Morton: I'm gonna be watching you, Simms, and the minute you screw up you're gonna be working mail fraud in east Cleveland. You understand me? Or am I yelling at too high a frequency?
- Sam Simms: No, Sir, I got my ear piece in.”
Art LaFleur - Morton
Sinbad - Sam Simms

“If he wants the work done, he must get the cash out.”
Vijay Raaz - Parabatlal Kanhaiyalal 'P.K.' Dubey