Working quotes

“- Mrs. Mary Smiling: Of course you may stay here as long as you like. But I expect you should want to find some work to earn enough for a flat of your own.
- Flora Poste: Work! What kind of work?
- Mrs. Mary Smiling: Oh, it's been ages since I've done any, but there must be something that would do... bookkeeping... beekeeping...”
Joanna Lumley - Mrs. Mary Smiling
Kate Beckinsale - Flora Poste

“- Eli Turnbull, INS Agent: If they are in fact aliens from another planet, sir, doesn't that make them Air Force jurisdiction?
- Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner: If they're just visiting, sure. But the minute they try to work here, they're mine.”
David Spade - Eli Turnbull, INS Agent
Michael McKean - Gorman Seedling, INS Deputy Commissioner

“- Norville Barnes: What do you do if the envelope is too big for the slot?
- Ancient Sorter: Well, if you fold 'em, they fire you. I usually throw 'em out.”

Tim Robbins - Norville Barnes
Patrick Cranshaw - Ancient Sorter

“- George Newman: You know what? Nobody in this small town appreciates a guy with a good imagination.
- Bob Steckler: Well, maybe not the people at the lumber yard, or the miniature golf course, or Floyd's Fish Market, or any of the other places you worked in the last... month.”
Weird Al - George Newman
David Bowe - Bob Steckler

“The trouble with some people is they work too hard.”
Robert Redford - Hubbell

“I work alone, like you. We always work alone.”

Clive Owen - The Professor

“With the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York, but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done and I could also be dead.”
Woody Allen - Joe

- Repairman: Just part of my job.
- Seth Frank: I hate it when people say that. "Just part of my job". It is your fucking job!
John Lyle Campbell - Repairman
Ed Harris - Seth Frank

“- Scott Calvin: Hey, kid, kid... who's in charge here?
- Elf-Larry: You are, and I'm not a kid, I have pointy shoes that are older than you... I'm an elf.”
Tim Allen - Scott Calvin
Joshua Satok - Elf-Larry

“- Naville: You are going to go to work, my girl.
- Celine Naville: What?
- Naville: You have spent the last quarter of a century watching the tide go in and out, but from tomorrow, you are going to work. Here, under my supervision. You're going to learn the essence of business.”
Sir Ian Holm - Naville
Cameron Diaz - Celine Naville

“- Claus von Bülow: Oh, come on, Sunny, your father worked! Do you want the children to grow up thinking a male's place is in a deck chair?
- Sunny von Bülow: Claus, you marry me for my money then you demand to work! You're the prince of perversion!”
Jeremy Irons - Claus von Bülow
Glenn Close - Sunny von Bülow

“- Mrs. B: Brett is a very nice hard working man. I wish the two of you were more like Brett Weir.
- Johnny: Ah, come on. It's not like we ain't had jobs. What about the mason's job we had a ways back?”
Suzanne Shepherd - Mrs. B
John G. Brennan - Himself

“I worked graveyard shift at a grocery warehouse, filling orders for the trucks to take to the various stores in the morning. I liked it for three reasons: I'd gotten the job on my own, it paid enough that I did not have to ask the old man for cash, and it annoyed Daniel that his son was even working at such a low class job.”
James Marsden - Neal Oliver

“- Kevin: He was one of my heroes.
- Randall: Heroes! Heroes! What do they know about a day's work?”

Craig Warnock - Kevin
David Rappaport - Randall

“Mama Celeste face up, I go to work, Mama Celeste face down, we're selling carnations on a freeway off ramp.”

Christina Applegate - Swell

“- McCoy: Hey, look, I did real good back there!
- Tom Cody: So what? I'm all outta medals! Besides, you're gettin' paid.”
Amy Madigan - McCoy
Michael Paré - Tom Cody

- Christine: Larry, my contract with you says 15 hours and I've been here for 22 hours now! I'm tired and I want to go home!
- Larry Benjamin: Of course you want to go home. While you were in that last scene, I could have sworn you were Marilyn Monroe in "River of No Return". You were so beautiful in that!
- Christine: Really, Larry? Marilyn... (continue)(continue reading)
Debbie Rochon - Christine
Lloyd Kaufman - Larry Benjamin

“- Healy: I work with retards.
- Mary: Isn't that a little politically incorrect?
- Healy: Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with.”
Matt Dillon - Healy
Cameron Diaz - Mary

“Very important, do not do your homework without wearing headphones.”
George Carlin - Rufus

“There is no sympathy for the working man in this country.”
Danny DeVito - Ernest Tilley

“Don't worry, on a new job it's quite common for things not to go well at first.”
Laura San Giacomo - Crazy Cora

“- Lyle Barton: If you will change your mind and join us. I'm hoping you have a feeling that that is the right thing to do.
- Milo Hoffman: Well, I'm sure what you're doing is important, Mr. Barton, I just fell like this is... kind of my time to make my mark.”
Richard Roundtree - Lyle Barton
Ryan Phillippe - Milo Hoffman

“All day long, I listen to people give me excuses why they can't work... 'My back hurts', 'my legs ache', 'I'm only four!'. The sooner he learns life isn't handed to him on a silver platter, the better!”
Bill Murray - Frank Cross

“- Russell Price: Pardon my French, but who's fucking side are you on?
- Marcel Jazy: I work for everyone.
- Russell Price: That's a great job!”
Nick Nolte - Russell Price
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcel Jazy

“- Capt. Bob Hyde: Why did you have to go to work in the hospital?
- Sally Hyde: Because I wanted to.
- Capt. Bob Hyde: It's the pits! You didn't have to do that. I just don't want you to work.”
Jane Seymour Fonda - Sally Hyde
Bruce Dern - Capt. Bob Hyde