Working quotes

“I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.”
Brendan Fraser

“- Ralph: The reason I'm calling this assembly is, too much people are screwing around when they should be working. I mean there's a bunch of things. Some people don't even know when to use the bathroom.
- Tony: Yeah. There's this one kid, the other day he took a shit in his pants and later sat on it, I'm not naming names because it's possible...” (continue)(continue reading)
Balthazar Getty - Ralph
Brian Matthews - Tony

“I do nothing professionally, I do everything for fun.”
Prince - Christopher Tracy

“I wouldn't be in your shoes if the sweet lord Jesus come down and asked me himself.”

Esther Rolle - Idella

“- Mr. White: You almost killed me! Asshole! If I knew what kind of a guy you were I never would've agreed to work with you!
- Mr. Blonde: Are you gonna bark all day little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?”

Harvey Keitel - Mr. White
Michael Madsen - Mr. Blonde

“Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

“Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
Robert Morley

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“- Moseby: What kind of work are you in, Bernie?
- Ralph: I'm retired.
- Moseby: Oh? From what?
- Ralph: From all the big hairy bullshit.”
Roy Cooper - Moseby
Richard B. Shull - Ralph

“What's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader.”
Julie Delpy - Celine

“- Annie: She does all the work around here, and you don't even know her first name.
- Daddy Warbucks: I do, it's Grace.
- Annie: She thinks you're the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie
Albert Finney - Daddy Warbucks

“Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you play the accordion no one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. But we can sing out hearts out. And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. Because life is the way we audition for God. Let us pray that we all get the job.”

Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“- Miss Hannigan: What are you just standing around here for? You're supposed to clean the bathroom and the kitchen before lunch, my little pig droppings, and if you skip the corners, there will be no lunch. And we're not having hot mush today.
- Orphans: Yay!
- Miss Hannigan: We're having cold mush!”

Carol Burnett - Miss Hannigan

“- Peter Banning: It's Brad, Moira. I gotta take this call. I've gotta fix this.
- Moira Banning: No, you've got to fix your family first.”

Robin Williams - Peter Banning
Caroline Goodall - Moira Banning

“If you don't work, you don't get paid no money. And I like money.”
Garry Cooper - Peter

“For 14 years I've been a whore for the advertising industry. The only way I could save myself now is if I start firebombing.”

Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Danny Pope: So, what are you doing over the summer?
- Lorna Phillips: I have a job pumping gas.
- Danny Pope: You finally got the Supreme Court to hear your case, huh?
- Lorna Phillips: Yeah.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

“I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.”
Matthew Goode

“I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.”
Steve Guttenberg

“I only really work when I want to.”
Ned Beatty

“I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.”
Jim Caviezel

“- Roz: Wazowski! You didn't file your paperwork last night.
- Mike: Oh, that darn paperwork! Wouldn't it be easier if it all just blew away?
- Roz: Don't let it happen again.
- Mike: Yes, well, I'll try to be more careful next time.
- Roz: I'm watching you, Wazowski. Always watching. Always.”
Bob Peterson - Roz
Billy Crystal - Mike

“You know you better get back here and fuck me you bastard, if you wanted me to come up with any kind of dinner!”
Mena Suvari - Cookie

“The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiotsons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“I have to work harder than anyone else to make it! I’ll never catch up otherwise.”
Daiki Yamashita - Izuku Midoriya