Working quotes

“I had a very strong work ethic. The problem was my ethics in work.”
Giovanni Ribisi - Seth Davis

“The milk guy's getting paid, the potato chip guy's getting paid, the beer guy's getting paid, every-fucking-body's getting paid! And you look through me? You fuck!”

Vin Diesel - Taylor

“I'm a soldier, not a monster. Even though I sometimes work for monsters.”

Jeremy Irons - Simon Gruber

“- Richard Harwood: Father, we should celebrate her going!
- Sir Mason Harwood: Celebrate? She knows more about wine already than you'll ever learn, and she willingly does the work of four!
- Richard Harwood: But Harwood has never been represented by a woman!
- Sir Mason Harwood: Yes, well that's something we should consider changing.”
Tim Bentinck - Richard Harwood
Ian Richardson - Sir Mason Harwood

“Everyone clung to the idea that if you worked hard, you would have gotten a piece of the American dream.”
Phill Lewis - Narrator

- Joseph "Sport" Sullivan: You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him?
- Jimmy: What?
- Joseph "Sport" Sullivan: Just enough so he knows he's hungry.
Kevin Tighe - Joseph "Sport" Sullivan
Philip Murphy - Jimmy

“She needs to work in a liquor store as much as she be drinking.”
2Pac - Lucky

“My dad always said that work was like a hat you put on your head. And even if you didn't have pants, you didn't have to walk down the street ashamed of your ass as long as you had a hat...”
Johnny Depp - Axel Blackmar

“All I ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.”
Steve Martin - Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko

“In life we all make some bad choices. My husband was a gambler. Almost cost us this house. But I worked, on my hands and knees, cleaning up after white folks. Taking in laundry. You do what you have to do to stay strong.”
Irma P. Hall - Mother Joe

“The satellite doesn't work as fast as I do.”
Ving Rhames - Luther Stickell

“- Jack Torrance: Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?
- Wendy Torrance: Yeah.
- Jack Torrance: Now, we're going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance
Shelley Duvall - Wendy Torrance

“- Peter: I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door, that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh, and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
- Bob Porter: Da uh? Space out?
- Peter: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too....” (continue)(continue reading)

Ron Livingston - Peter
Paul Willson - Bob Porter

“- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: How long have you been a bellboy?
- Bellboy: Oh, too long, Monsieur.
- Insp. Jacques Clouseau: Keep up the good work, and I shall see to it you become a bell man.”
Peter Sellers - Clouseau
Mike Grady - Bellboy

“I do not understand American workers. They come five minutes late, leave two minutes early. They stay home when they are sick. They put themselves above company. You seem to feel the same way as they do.”

Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro

“- Anthony Adams: It wasn't an insane asylum, Grace. I explained to you back then that it was for exhaustion.
- Grace: Exhaustion?
- Anthony Adams: Yes, exhaustion.
- Grace: You haven't worked a day in your life. How could you be exhausted?”

Luke Wilson - Anthony Adams
Shea Fowler - Grace

“- Dr. Gunter Janek: I'm sorry. It's just, I have this work.
- Dr. Elena Rhyzkov: I'll give you something to work, baby!
- Dr. Gunter Janek: Ok. Just for a little while.”

Donal Logue - Dr. Gunter Janek
Lee Garlington - Dr. Elena Rhyzkov

“- Myron Larabee: I work for the post office so you know I'm not stable! Tell 'em!
- Howard Langston: This man is totally insane.
- Myron Larabee: Thank you!”
Sinbad - Myron Larabee
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Howard Langston

“- Doctor Pretorius: Everything is now ready for you and me to begin our supreme collaboration!
- Henry Frankenstein: No, no. Don't tell me of it. I don't want to hear! I've changed my mind. I won't do it!”
Ernest Thesiger - Doctor Pretorius
Colin Clive - Dr. Frankenstein

“Time to put some hustle behind this muscle.”
Richard Gant - George Washington Duke

“- Weaver: What are you bitching about? In case you haven't noticed, we ants are running the show. We're the Lords of the Earth.
- Z: Hey, don't talk to me about Earth, okay, because I just spent all day hauling it around.”
Sylvester Stallone - Weaver
Woody Allen - Z

“- Rick Deckard: Is this a real snake?
- Zhora: Of course it's not real. You think I would be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?”
Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard
Joanna Cassidy - Zhora

“- Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make shit.
- Mr. Pink: Don't give me that. If she don't make enough money she can quit.
- Nice Guy Eddie: I don't even know a fucking Jew who'd have the balls to say that. Let me get this straight: you don't ever tip?
- Mr. Pink: I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone...” (continue)(continue reading)

Edward Bunker - Mr. Blue
Steve Buscemi - Mr. Pink
Chris Penn - Nice Guy Eddie

“- Clopin: Listen. They're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods. Because, you know, they do not ring all by themselves.
- Puppet: They don't?
- Clopin: No, you silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?”

Paul Kandel - Clopin

“- Harlan: I don't work with you for the money.
- Max Renn: I know that. 'Cause piracy's never just for the money, is it?”
Peter Dvorsky - Harlan
James Woods - Max Renn