Working quotes

“- Pops: What's goin' on in there? Lotta folks out here need to use the restroom!
- Kermit the Frog: Well, we're developing these pictures, we'll be out as soon as we finish. We're trying to catch a jewel thief.
- Fozzie Bear: A jewel thief!
- Pops: Well, catch him in another room, people are dancing up and down on one leg out here!”

Jerry Nelson - Pops
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear

“Maybe I don't have someone that I thought I loved a lot really, but that's ok because I've got me. And I've got my work. And I've got my music. And I love that - more than anything else on this earth.”
Didi Conn - Laurie Robinson

“I operate from a model of absolute zero tolerance.”
John P. Ryan - Mr. Hardin

“Fellas, we're in a hole full of coal gas here. The tiniest spark at the wrong time is going to be the end of us. So we got to pick away at this situation, slow and careful. We got to organize and build support. We got to work together. Together! Till they can't get their coal out of the ground without us cause we're a union! Cause we're the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Chris Cooper - Joe Kenehan

“- Bob Steckler: I don't know about this, George. We don't know the first thing about what goes on in a television station.
- George Newman: Don't worry, Bob. It's just like working in a fish-market. Except you don't have to clean and gut fish all day.”
David Bowe - Bob Steckler
Weird Al - George Newman

“- Max Sherman: I live where the money is. You don't think this NYC crowd would have anything to do with me unless I could move millions of bucks around, do you...? Does your wife work?
- Lenny Brown: Yeah, she has a great job.
- Max Sherman: Lucky for you.”
Steven Hill - Max Sherman
James Woods - Lenny Brown

“- Scott Calvin: You know, you look pretty good for your age.
- Elf-Judy: Thanks, but I'm seeing someone in wrapping.”
Tim Allen - Scott Calvin
Paige Tamada - Elf-Judy

“- Lady in T-Bird: Are you a mechanic?
- Vance: No ma'am.
- Lady in T-Bird: What do you do?
- Vance: Not a whole lot.
- Lady in T-Bird: What do you mean?
- Vance: I mean, like, zero.”
Jane Berman - Lady in T-Bird
Willem Dafoe - Vance

“- Angela Delvecchio: Sometimes, people who do drugs, they're just... They may be dealing with some kind of problem, and maybe if we talk...
- Alicia: You wanna know what the problem is? You're the problem! You and everyone else. Here you are, pretending you care, pretending you wanna help me, when all your really care about is being popular. You...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kellie Martin - Angela Delvecchio
Alix Koromzay - Alicia

“We were engineered as slave laborers. It was our only means of pleasure allowed! The harder you worked the more you got, the more you got the harder you worked. Thousands of my people died, I lost my best friend. It is a nightmare! I will not let it happen again.”

Mandy Patinkin - Sam Francisco

“- Kathy: My dad says you are an opportunity that might not come again in a little spot like this, watching an artist at work.
- Birkin: I'm not an artist. I'm merely a labourer who cleans up after artists.”

Vicki Arundale - Kathy
Colin Firth - Birkin

“- Dean Burbage: Our approaches are quite different. Unfortunately for you, I happen to be the head of the department.
- Geoffrey Fisher: Why don't you fire me then?
- Dean Burbage: I don't want to fire you Geoffrey. I just want you to produce.
- Geoffrey Fisher: You can't fire me can you? You know that if anyone around here is going to strike...” (continue)(continue reading)
Stephen Root - Dean Burbage
John Pankow - Geoffrey Fisher

“- Sandra Dee: I've never worked with somebody so unprofessional in my life. I mean, have you ever even acted before?
- Bobby Darin: Well, I'm learning but let me tell you something, blondie, you're not exactly Audrey Hepburn.”
Kate Bosworth - Sandra Dee
Kevin Spacey - Bobby Darin

“You liked me because you could use me. You could use me because I was smart. I'm not smart anymore. I run a gas station.”

Robert Mitchum - Jeff Bailey

“When I got back from Spain, I got into accounting. I figured I could hide behind a desk. I looked down, and I didn't so much as look up for a whole year. When I finally did, people weren't staring at me anymore. I guess they kind of forgot about it.”

Kevin Bacon - Jack Morris

“That's what I love about working for you. It's a total freedom from hero worship. It's very refreshing.”
Johnny Galecki - Seth

“I pulled double-down at the hanger and I come home and I see that none of you has even picked up even a finger to help me out here but that's okay, I'm used to that. But unless your school takes monopoly money, you're working for me this summer, boy.”

Nicholas Campbell - Kyle's Dad

“I work harder than God. If He had hired me, He would have made the world by Thursday.”
Jenna Elfman - Anna Riley

“- Mr. Evans: Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
- Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.”
Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“- Principal Turner: Miss Riley, once in a while a lucky one will get out on a football scholarship. The rest of 'em work in the mines.
- Miss Riley: How 'bout I believe in the unlucky ones? Hmm? I have to, Mister Turner, I'd go out of my mind.”

Chris Ellis - Principal Turner
Laura Dern - Miss Riley

“Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger. Can I take your order?”

Kel Mitchell - Ed

“Dad, you used to fly 747s, and now you deliver toilet paper.”
Vincent Kartheiser - Sean Barnes

“- Randall: We made trees and shrubs. We helped make all this.
- Kevin: Whew! That's not bad.
- Randall: Yeah. But did we get a thimble full of credit for it? No! All we got was the sack. Just for creating the Pink Bunkadoo.
- Kevin: Pink Bunkadoo?
- Randall: Yeah. Beautiful trees that was. Og designed it. 600 feet high, bright red, and smelled...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Rappaport - Randall
Craig Warnock - Kevin

“- Ed Leland: Close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?
- Linda Voss: Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - Ed Leland
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“Drank my coffee, read the paper, now it's time to get to work.”
Ed E. Carroll - The Thief