Working quotes

632 working quotes, film quotes, movie lines, taglines
  • “- Mrs. Judd: You can't work on an empty stomach.
    - William Schwenck Gilbert: I can't work at all, Mrs. Judd, if I'm being constantly pestered by interfering women with hot beef tea, cold compresses, mustard poultices, and excessive attacks of philanthropic zeal.”

    Kate Doherty - Mrs. Judd
    Jim Broadbent - William Schwenck Gilbert
    [Tag:caring, food, working]
  • “What I do is my job, while the thing I care about is at home... being butchered.”
    Sylvester Stallone - Jake Malloy
    [Tag:caring, murder, working]
  • “- Craig Jones: [beaten up Moly walks in Barbeque restaurant] Daaaamn!
    - Day-Day: [imitating Moly] Someone call 9-1-1
    - Mr. Jones: Moly... you got knocked the fuck out!
    - Moly: Oh, good observation, buddy.
    - Moly: Where were you buddies, huh?
    - Craig Jones: We was on our lunch break.
    - Day-Day: Trying to get something to eat, so we can secure...” (continue)
    (continue reading)

    Ice Cube - Craig Jones
    Mike Epps - Day-Day
    John Witherspoon - Mr. Jones
    Maz Jobrani - Moly
    [Tag:fighting, ghetto, working]
  • “- Sean: You gotta make money, you work?
    - Nick: I cruise, you know. I find something when I need to, kind of like the day to day thing.”

    Kerr Smith - Sean
    Brendan Fehr - Nick
    [Tag:living, need, working]
  • “- Iago: With all due respect, Your Rottenness, couldn't we just wait for a real storm?
    - Jafar: Save your breath, Iago. Faster!
    - Iago: Yes, O Mighty Evil One!”

    Gilbert Gottfried - Iago
    Jonathan Freeman - Jafar
    [Tag:weariness, working]
  • “- Mowgli: That village was terrible. All you ever hear is rules, rules, rules and work, work, work.
    - Baloo: Whoa, kid. Watch your language.”

    Haley Joel Osment - Mowgli
    John Goodman - Baloo
    [Tag:rules, working]
  • “You'll be dead in a year, son. Hear what I'm saying? You'll be dead in a year!”

    Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark
    [Tag:crime, death, working]
  • “The war reduced our male population by 68 percent. It made most of the human race sterile. But we're still at war. A population war. Each side is desperate to rebuild and rearm. Now, that requires manpower; manpower requires people.”
    Eyde Byrde - Patton
    [Tag:people, war, working]
  • “- Lucy: B, when you grow up would you like to be a shepherd?
    - Bea: No, I don't think so.”

    Kate Winslet - Lucy
    Bella Riza - Bea
    [Tag:growth, wishes, working]
  • - Dr. Mumford: Nobody ever said "I should have spent more time at the office".
    - Jeremy Brockett: Fill in the blanks. I don't mind the office. The point is you only go around once. So, like the Zen say, "Be here now".

    Loren Dean - Mumford
    Ted Danson - Jeremy Brockett
    [Tag:carpe diem, existence, working]
  • “Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”
    Sir Patrick Stewart - Gurney Halleck
    [Tag:obstinacy, perseverance, working]
  • “- The Chief: I'm tired of you disrespecting me! Give me one good reason why I shouldn't fire your black-ass?
    - Undercover Brother: Because I... don't... work for you?
    - The Chief: Shut up! Save the smart comments for the chunky brother in the smock!”

    Chi McBride - The Chief
    Eddie Griffin - Undercover Brother
    [Tag:layoff, working]
  • “- Tommy: La-la-la-loo-loo... Luuuke... Luuuke! I am your fah-ther! La-la-lay-lu...
    - Richard: [walks in] Oh, I've interrupted happy time! Now I know you want to sit there and keep being not slim, but we gotta work a little today.
    - Tommy: That was from 'Star Wars'.
    - Richard: I know.”

    Chris Farley - Tommy
    David Spade - Richard
    [Tag:movie, quotations, working]
  • “All my mother does is work. That's how you get to be Spanish.”
    Elizabeth Peña - Pilar
    [Tag:mother, spain, working]
  • “- Emily: When I am not here... Andrea, you are chained to that desk!
    - Andy Sachs: But what if I have to...
    - Emily: What? No! Nothing! One time an assistant left the desk. Oh, because she sliced her hand open with a letter opener, and Miranda missed Lagerfeld just before he was about to board a 17 hour flight to Austrailia. She now works at TV...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Emily Blunt - Emily
    Anne Hathaway - Andy Sachs
    [Tag:absence, responsibility, working]
  • “- Norville Barnes: I just got hired today.
    - Ancient Sorter: Hmm-mmm.
    - Norville Barnes: You know, entry level.
    - Ancient Sorter: Tell me about it.
    - Norville Barnes: But I got big ideas.”

    Tim Robbins - Norville Barnes
    Patrick Cranshaw - Ancient Sorter
    [Tag:ideas, originality, working]
  • “What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years... at the end of which they tell you to piss off? Ending up in some retirement village... hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time. Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?”
    Steve Buscemi - Garland 'The Marietta Mangler' Greene
    [Tag:madness, old age, working]
  • “Can I get some help here, please? I'm trapped in some sort of adhesive, polymer material and I'm on deadline!”

    Haviland Morris - Marla Bloodstone
    [Tag:helping, rescue, working]
  • “- Arthur Sullivan: This work with Gilbert is quite simply killing me.
    - Richard D'Oyly Carte: Working with Gilbert would kill anybody.”

    Allan Corduner - Arthur Sullivan
    Ron Cook - Richard D'Oyly Carte
    [Tag:bothering, teamwork, working]
  • From the animation: Antz
    “- Z: Why'd I have to be born a worker? You soldiers get all the glory. Plus, you get to go out in the world. You know, you meet interesting insects; you get to kill them.
    - Weaver: Yeah, but you get to spend all day with those beautiful worker girls.
    - Z: Weaver, they're career girls. They're obsessed with digging.”

    Woody Allen - Z
    Sylvester Stallone - Weaver
    [Tag:envy, job, working]
  • “- Ed Dillinger: ENCOM isn't the business you started in your garage anymore. We're building accounts in thirty different countries. New defense systems. We have one of the most sophisticated pieces of equipment in existence.
    - Dr. Walter Gibbs: Oh, I know all that. Sometimes I wish I were back in that garage.
    - Ed Dillinger: That can be arranged...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    David Warner - Ed Dillinger
    Barnard Hughes - Dr. Walter Gibbs
    [Tag:business, layoff, working]
  • “Life is for enjoying, not just getting and working, and getting and working.”
    Aidan Quinn - Tom Bledsoe
    [Tag:enjoyment, life, working]
  • “- Jay: You don't remember me, but we used to work together...
    - Kay: I never worked in a funeral home.”

    Will Smith - Jay
    Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
    [Tag:forgetfulness, partner, working]
  • “- Dr. Daka: If you cooperate with us, you will share in the glorious victories soon to be ours.
    - Martin Warren: And if I refuse?
    - Dr. Daka: You have no choice but to accept. You will work with us or be compelled to work for us.”

    J. Carrol Naish - Dr. Daka
    Gus Glassmire - Martin Warren
    [Tag:threat, victory, working]
  • “We're gonna have to work awfully hard to sell the store. See, it's got to be turned into a profit-making business in order to attract a buyer. Now, I figure it'll take a couple of weeks to get everything taken care of. In the meantime, we'll just live here. Now you, Todd, can either help me out or not. It's up to you.”
    Michael David Wright - Alan
    [Tag:choice, helping, working]
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