Working quotes

“Some men are born great, with wealth, propensity, and power. Some men, like me, wrestle greatness to the ground, kicking their typewriters, stomp on their computers, and spill blood all over their notepads and journals, until the sentence is perfect.”
Kevin Corrigan - JJ Lask

“I decided to try radio as a source of livelihood because I like to eat regularly.”
Jim Backus

A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, "What the fuck is this?". He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say "I like steak!".
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“- Howard Keach: You know, looking for working can be a real gas.
- Harry Keach: You got something?
- Howard Keach: Yep, hope it isn't the clap.”
Robby Benson - Howard Keach
Paul Newman - Harry Keach

“- Marcy Tizard: What do you think, tending bar in a tasteless shirt is a more profound and valid way to spend your time?
- Sean Kelly: Yes, I do think that tending bar in a tasteless shirt is a more profound and valid use of my time, yes I do, that's why I do it.”
Janeane Garofalo - Marcy Tizard
David O'Hara - Sean Kelly

“Moles and trolls, moles and trolls, work, work, work, work, work. We never see the light of day. We plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I'm disgusted. I'm sorry but it's not like me, I'm depressed.”
Val Kilmer - Chris Knight

“- Sue: There's no way I'm workin' all week for twenty-seven pounds thirty on some bleedin' trainin' scheme.
- Sue's Dad: I had to work for eighteen shilling!
- Sue's Mum: That were in the days of Methusela! They were worth more then.”
Michelle Holmes - Sue
Willie Ross - Sue's Father
Patti Nicholls - Sue's Mother

“- Bass: What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
- Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
- Bass: It is horrid.
- Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

We, the sailors of "Potemkin", must support the workers, our brothers, and stand among the front lines of the revolution!
Aleksandr Antonov - Grigory Vakulinchuk

“- Willa Weston: Why do you work for us, Rollo?
- Rollo Lee: Cowardice?”
Jamie Lee Curtis - Willa Weston
John Marwood Cleese - Rollo Lee

“I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin. So I have no choice, but to be the first.”

Janelle Monáe - Mary Jackson

“There is no doubt in my military mind that we are in a deep-shit situation, people. Now, if any of you dog-faced dope smokers don't feel like pulling your share of the load around here, you can pack your shit and get your young asses off of my firebase right now!”
R. Lee Ermey - Bill Hafner

“I love it when people tell me how to do my job.”
Jon Bernthal - Brax

“More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.”
Holly Hunter

“- Cop: A-ha! Plumbers!
- Luigi: No, he is! I'm just apprenticing!
- Cop: Get in the car!
- Luigi: But I didn't do nothin'!
- Cop: Get in the car now!
- Mario: Are you tellin' us that you can arrest a guy for being a plumber?”

John Leguizamo - Luigi Mario
Bob Hoskins - Mario Mario

“- Mission Control: Matt, do you have visual on just what Mission Specialist Shariff is doing up there?
- Matt Kowalski: He appears to be doing some form of the Macarena or that would be just a best guess scenario on my part.”
Ed Harris - Mission Control
George Clooney - Matt Kowalski

“All my life, since I was 16, I've been wondering where that next job was gonna come from.”
Jerry Orbach

“- Bank Secretary: So, people hire you to break into their places... to make sure no one can break into their places?
- Bishop: It's a living.
- Bank Secretary: Not a very good one.”
Hanyee - Bank Secretary
Robert Redford - Bishop

“- Tom Baker: What do you do for a living Eliot?
- Eliot Murtaugh : Well... I'm in 8th grade.”
Steve Martin - Tom Baker
Taylor Lautner - Eliot Murtaugh

“Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.”
Anthony Rapp

“England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends.”
Sir Michael Gambon - Eddie Temple

“I can tell when a man wants to work. I can also tell when a man wants to play.”
Mary Stavin - Tanya

“If I were you I'd be a little nervous about firing an employee I'd just had an affair with, okay?”

Laura Linney - Sammy

“In Slovetzia hard work today, happiness tomorrow.”
Patrick Malahide - Leonid Kleist

“- Lloyd Fellowes: I've been working on Hamlet for the past six weeks.
- Dotty: Do you think he needs working on more than we do?”

Sir Michael Caine - Lloyd Fellowes
Carol Burnett - Dotty Otley