Working quotes

“Why am I paying a demolition crew to sit around eating in a restaurant they're supposed to be knocking down?”
Michael Greene - Lacey

“People who are awake at 3 am aren't afraid of the Wolfman. The only thing that frightens those people is sobering up and going to work.”
Robert Prosky - Grandpa Fred

“- Miles Logan: Put your hands on the Oodles of Noodles.
- Tulley: Chicken or beef?
- Miles Logan: Chicken. Cool. Cool is good.
- Tulley: Miles?
- Miles Logan: Tulley? What are you doing?
- Tulley: I'm freaking working over here.”
Martin Lawrence - Miles Logan
Dave Chappelle - Tulley

“A lot of people think this is just a job that you go to. Take a lunch hour... job's over. Something like that. But it's a 24-hour deal. No two ways about it. And what most people don't see... is just how hard it is to do the right thing.”

John C. Reilly - Officer Jim Kurring

“- Mr. Smiley's Manager: I don't think you'd fit in here.
- Lester Burnham: I have fast food experience.
- Mr. Smiley's Manager: Yeah, like twenty years ago!
- Lester Burnham: Well, I'm sure there have been amazing technological advances in the industry, but surely you must have some sort of training program. It seems unfair to presume I won't be...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dennis Anderson - Mr. Smiley's Manager
Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- Biff Loman: I tell you Happy, I don't know what the future is. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
- Harold 'Happy' Loman: What do you mean?
- Biff Loman: I spent six or seven years after High School trying to work myself up, being a shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Malkovich - Biff Loman
Stephen Lang - Harold 'Happy' Loman

“I may not look like I could finance a trip to the zoo but the truth is I make a pretty good living. My income is a damn lot more than your father gives your mother to live on. But my money doesn't matter in your neighborhood, because I work for it. Working for your money doesn't matter in your neck of the woods, it's whose crotch the doctor...” (continue)(continue reading)

Ed O'Neill - Dutch Dooley

“- Peter: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
- Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
- Peter: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?”
Ron Livingston - Peter
Paul Willson - Bob Porter

“The couple that spies together, dies together.”
Gloria Foster - Medusa Johnson

“- Rosalie: They look like drug addicts.
- Devo: Well, they are drug addicts.
- Rosalie: Oh my God! You hired drug addicts?
- Devo: Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?”
Tracey Ullman - Rosalie
River Phoenix - Devo

“You take the fruit of forty years - hard lessons, mistakes - and you call it wisdom.”
Dustin Hoffman - Stanley Motss

“- Kay: Not bad for your second day of work, is it?
- Jay: This definitely rates about a 9.0 on my weird-shit-o-meter.
- Kay: You should've been here for the Zeronian migration in 1968.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Kay
Will Smith - Jay

“Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.”
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz

“- Dante Hicks: All right, so even if independent contractors are working on the Death Star, why are you uneasy with its destruction?
- Randal Graves: All those innocent contractors hired to do a job were killed - casualties of a war they had nothing to do with.”
Brian O'Halloran - Dante Hicks
Jeff Anderson - Randal Graves

“There's about as much chance of me getting behind a desk as there is of me getting a new girlfriend.”
Warren Beatty - Dick Tracy

“- Ken Cosgrove: How's it going?
- Building 20 Guard: Big night. Switched from tea to coffee. Brought new meaning to my work.”
Ed Beechner - Ken Cosgrove
Bobby Stewart - Building 20 Guard

“Can you believe this? It's Christmas Eve and we got orders to bring in Santa Claus.”
Richard D. Clark - Officer Miller

“- Janet Beindorf: It's been 14 years and you haven't even finished the bathroom.
- Ned Beindorf: I've been working for 14 years!
- Janet Beindorf: And what's my job? Is it a hobby?”

Jamie Lee Curtis - Janet Beindorf
Kevin Pollak - Ned Beindorf

“I have no intention of taking a job. My work is going far too well - I can't afford to waste time earning money.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Arthur Rimbaud

“It's so crazy, it just might work.”
Dana Carvey - Pistachio Disguisey

“A lesson, Princess: Work with me or for me...”

Doug Bradley - Pinhead

“If power doesn't mean that you have the opportunity to work with the people that you love, then you haven't really got any.”
Ray Liotta - Frank Sinatra

“- Abner Devereaux: Armageddon is coming to this park tonight.
- Cat Man: We don't work with a second act, Deveroux, besides, Armageddon is a lame group.”
Anthony Zerbe - Abner Devereaux
Peter Criss - Cat Man

“I want you to work, until you are burned-out, you are busted, or you're dead... you get it? You got responsibilities, tighten up and do it.”

Robert Prosky - Leo

“Maybe you were absent the day they taught economics at the academy, Ker, but nobody works for free.”
Tim Post - Assistant Planetship