Working quotes

“There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we for then?”
Brad Pitt - Jeffrey Goines

“- Prison Guard: Is something burning?
- Frank Morris: What? I don't smell nothing.
- Prison Guard: It must be my imagination. Working nights really gets to you.
- Frank Morris: You should try it from my side.”
Clint Eastwood - Frank Morris

“- Lou: It's the American Dream in a goddamn gym bag! He... he just wants to walk away from it.
- Hank: You work for the American Dream. You don't steal it.
- Lou: Then this is even better.”

Brent Briscoe - Lou
Bill Paxton - Hank

“- Gas Station Attendant: Boy, get to work in there!
- Navin: But sir, I don't even work here.
- Gas Station Attendant: Not even for $1.10 an hour?”
Steve Martin - Navin

“My work here is done. Time for the ritualistic sex!”
Vivica A. Fox - Debi LeCure

“Deadline: A date or time before which something must be done.”

Robert Duvall - Bernie White

“Labor? What you you know about labor? How would you feel if you were expected to give birth every 10 seconds for the rest of your life?”
Sharon Stone - Princess Bala

“- Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.: I slaved to you for 10 years without a raise or a promotion.
- Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr.: Is there a lesson to be learned from all this? How about don't trust anyone?
- Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.: Not even your own father?
- Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr.: Especially your own father! You know what your problem is?...” (continue)(continue reading)
John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.
Jack Warden - Benjamin 'Big Ben' Healy, Sr.

“That's one of the advantages of working in a chem lab. I finally figured it out, Allan. Every three days that I stay awake, I gain 24 hours. That's 122 days every year. So even if I die at 50, I will have lived 65 years.”
John Pankow - Geoffrey Fisher

“- Secretary of Labor: The Department of Labor wishes to note that the workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.
- Rufus T. Firefly: Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to 20 minutes.”
Edward LeSaint - Secretary of Labor
Groucho Marx - Rufus T. Firefly

“Well, I'll tell you one thing: round here, you go to work, you go to school. First of the month, the rent is due. If you ain't got nothin' on the table, you ain't gotta worry about catchin' a dog, you gotta worry about a dog catchin' your ass!”
John Witherspoon - Mr. Jones

“- Willy Wonka: They're laying overtime right now, for Easter.
- Mike Teevee: But Easter's over!
- Willy Wonka: Ssshhh! They don't know that. I'm trying to get ahead for next year.”

Gene Wilder - Willy Wonka
Paris Themmen - Mike Teevee

“My grandfather used to work for your grandfather. Of course the rates have gone up.”
Marty Feldman - Igor

“Seed to tree. You've gotta work with me, here. Alright? Okay. Now, y-you might not feel like you can do much now, but that's just because, well, you're not a tree yet. You just have to give yourself some time. You're still a seed.”

Dave Foley - Flik

“- Angelica: So, what did you do before you signed on with Daddy?
- Joe: I was an advertising librarian for a medical supply company.
- Angelica: Oh, I have no response to that.”
Meg Ryan - Angelica
Tom Hanks - Joe

“You're in management now. If everybody loved you, you'd be doing something wrong.”
Robert Duvall - Bernie White

“- Cleopatra: It seems strange to see you working. I've always pictured you either fighting or loving.
- Julius Caesar: Well, I have had some experience with fighting.
- Cleopatra: But none with loving, I suppose.
- Julius Caesar: Well, none with pretty little queens.”
Claudette Colbert - Cleopatra
Warren William - Julius Caesar

“- George Newman: Well... I've got good news and bad news.
- Bob Steckler: Okay, give me the bad news first.
- George Newman: Well... given our current financial status, compounded with fixed income and outstanding invoices... I figure this station will be flat broke by the end of the week.
- Bob Steckler: Well, what's the good news?
- George...” (continue)(continue reading)
Weird Al - George Newman
David Bowe - Bob Steckler

“You two are not doing your job. Look at me when I'm talking to you! You're supposed to be my eyes, my ears, my nose.”

Mary Woronov - Miss Evelyn Togar

“- Thomas: My cousin's fighting; he's getting the crap kicked out of him.
- Glenda Gardenia Parks: At least he's working!”
Joseph Runningfox - Thomas
Goldie Hawn - Glenda Parks

“They jacked up the price. You hear that? Ten cents a hundred! Ya know, it's bad enough that we gotta eat what we don't sell. Now they jacked up the price! Can you believe that?”

Trey Parker - Kid Blink

“I don't do much really, I just read, and work here, and... sleep and eat, and... watch movies.”
Wammo - Anti-Artist

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”

Jack Nicholson - Jack Torrance

“I'll be the sculptor and you'll be the clay.”

Adolphe Menjou - Anthony Powell

“Modern man is so confused, Raymond. Finally, it's much better to work in the theater... than in a mine.”

Jerzy Skolimowski - Colonel Chaiko