Working quotes

“I have narcolepsy. It's a sleeping disorder. It isn't the worst thing you could ever have. I'm just not allowed to fly in a plane or drive a car or work in a gun range.”
Deborah Lemen - Carol

“Where is Mr. Disney? I should so much like to get this started and finished as briskly as is humanly possible.”
Emma Thompson - P.L. Travers

“Work hard, lad, and one day, your life will be as solid as this very building!”

Frank Oz - Sam the Eagle as Headmaster of Junior High Graduates

“- Redfoot the Fence: You guys interested in any more work?
- McManus: We're always looking for extra work.
- Keaton: We're on vacation.”
Peter Greene - Redfoot the Fence
Stephen Baldwin - McManus
Gabriel Byrne - Keaton

“- Nate Nash: You were dancing for them because they were letting you I mean, you see it now, right? You belong to them pretty much your whole life. So, Dominika, work with me. Make this something that you own for the first time in your life. And make them, make them fucking pay.
- Dominika Egorova: What is it you want from me?
- Nate Nash:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joel Edgerton - Nate Nash
Jennifer Lawrence - Dominika Egorova

“Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.”
Daniel Hugh Kelly - Sojef

“A bastard's work is never done.”
Michael Madsen - Joe Gage

“Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting.”
Jim Broadbent - William 'Boss' Tweed

“Only thing you need to know is the job's real, and the money's real.”
Bruce Willis - Mr. Church

“I can't work here. I've been trying. It's impossible. I've written three pages in the last six weeks. Three pages! The book is due on Wednesday. If we don't hand in the book I don't know what we're gonna do. We can't pay for anything.”
Ben Stiller - Alex Rose

“- Qohen Leth: What kind of work do you do exactly?
- Bainsley: I shoot trouble.”
Christoph Waltz - Qohen Leth
Mélanie Thierry - Bainsley

“- Mrs. Connelly: Let Mr. Rose get out there and bring home the bacon. I always thought it was strange your husband staying home while you were out there providing.
- Nancy Kendricks: Well, he's a writer.
- Mrs. Connelly: Writer? The man naps more than a newborn pup. What's he writing about? Sheeps?”
Eileen Essell - Mrs. Connelly
Drew Barrymore - Nancy Kendricks

“I think Spencer always thought that acting was a rather silly way for a man to make a living.”
Katharine Hepburn On Spencer Tracy

“- Dr. Russell Oakes: You know what's going to happen next around here, don't you?
- Nurse Nancy Bauer: I've been trying not to think about it.
- Dr. Russell Oakes: We may be the only hospital operating within 100 miles. Everyone half-alive or dying will find their way here.”
Jason Robards - Dr. Russell Oakes
JoBeth Williams - Nurse Nancy Bauer

“Listen up, little miss sunshine - I'm in charge now. Just don't expect any bedtime stories.”

John DiMaggio - Crosshairs

“You hired me from a newspaper ad, you think I come with a superpower?”
Jerrod Carmichael - Jimmy

“- Gia Carangi: People keep going away from me, that hurts.
- Francesco: Work. You have a gift, use it. Life, life will be there later. When you have worked, and you have lived, and you know who you are, life is easy. Work. It's the only answer I know.”
Angelina Jolie - Gia Carangi
Edmund Genest - Francesco

“We are dumb, but we are not so dumb. It takes great courage and work to keep from working.”

Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby

“- Scarlett Overkill: Work for me, and all this will be yours: respect, power...
- The Minions: Banana!
- Scarlett Overkill: ...Banana!”
Sandra Bullock - Scarlet Overkill
Pierre Coffin - The Minions

“She's a dancer who doesn't dance and her friend is a painter who doesn't paint. It's kind of a Boho version of the Island of the Lost Toys.”
Kieran Culkin - Igby

“You should try running a country for a day. It's not all making war and smashing dissidents, you know. It's hard work.”

Timothy Dalton - Boris Pochenko

- Peter: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays?".
- Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
Ron Livingston - Peter
Diedrich Bader - Lawrence

“- Ray Kroc: What's your name?
- Leonard Rosenblatt: Leonard. Leonard Rosenblatt.
- Ray Kroc: Rosenblatt? What's a Jew doing selling Catholic bibles?
- Leonard Rosenblatt: Making a living.”
Michael Keaton - Ray Kroc
Andrew Benator - Leonard Rosenblatt

“I respect you gentlemen for wanting to roll up your sleeves and build something, stake your claim. Now I came to this country with nothing. And through risk and hard work, I made my own American dream come true.”
Christoph Waltz - Bert Hanson

“- Oishi Kazihiro: In Japan, when production lags, worker stays longer in factory.
- Hunt Stevenson: Okay, overtime. We can talk about overtime. I understand it now.
- Oishi Kazihiro: They do not do it for pay. They do it for company.
- Hunt Stevenson: Yeah, but that's there, this is here.”
Gedde Watanabe - Oishi Kazihiro
Michael Keaton - Hunt Stevenson