Working quotes

“I don't like to discuss works in progress. If I let the words tumble out prematurely, it changes it, and I may never get it back.”
John Turturro - Barton Fink

“- Goro Maki: What's that you're working on?
- Dr. Hayashida: Genetic mutation designs.
- Goro Maki: Genetic mutations. No kidding. Does it have something to do with Godzilla?”
Ken Tanaka - Goro Maki
Yôsuke Natsuki - Dr. Hayashida

“- Neal: Everybody has to work for somebody. Even Michelangelo had to please the Pope.
- Vincent Eastman: The Pope didn't ask for parking space.”
Martin Landau - Neal
Richard Tiffany Gere - Vincent Eastman

“- Jeanie: Let me call Kevin.
- Nick Campbell: Jeanie... I'm sure your boyfriend's a great guy, but I'm not ready to work for someone who spent all of last Thanksgiving explaining the meaning of his tattoo.”
Ashlee Heath - Jeanie
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell

“I believe the prospect of responsibility has rendered you impotent, and that's why you're working at this old precinct behind a desk.”
Maria Bello - Dr. Alex Sabian

“- Apocalypse, Inc. Chairman: Who said minimum wage? Did I say minimum wage? Melvie, bubula, baby, what self-respecting, hideously deformed creature of super-human size and strength works for peanuts, hmmmm?
- The Toxic Avenger: Uh, none I guess.
- Apocalypse, Inc. Chairman: All these things I will give thee, if you will bow down and work for me.”
Rick Collins - Inc. Chairman
Ron Fazio - The Toxic Avenger

“Is there some reason that my coffee isn't here? Has she died or something?”

Meryl Streep - Miranda Priestly

“- Vladimir Ivanoff: I read about slavery.
- Lionel Witherspoon: Yeah, with slavery at least the work was steady.
- Vladimir Ivanoff: Sounds like Russia.”
Robin Williams - Vladimir Ivanoff
Cleavant Derricks - Lionel Witherspoon

“I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman. ”
Lindsay Duncan

“It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.”
Lea Thompson

“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
Darryl Francis Zanuck

“When you work with love, you will love your work.”
Erick Avari

“- Donnie Azoff: I got a couple of mil' comin' in like a week. And when it gets in, I'll give you a call and you come pick it up.
- Brad: You'll give me a call?
- Donnie Azoff: When it gets here, I'll give you a call and you'll come pick it up.
- Chantalle: Well, we don't work for you, man!
- Donnie Azoff: Sweetheart, you have my money taped to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonah Hill - Donnie Azoff
Jon Bernthal - Brad
Katarina Cas - Chantalle

“Aside from the fact that it’s nice to be employed, it’s nice to be employed on a show that everybody considers important.”
Gregory Itzin

“Maybe I'm just lucky I'm not working with any assholes... yet.”
Peter Jacobson

“What do you want with a job that ain't nothing but work?”
Marlon Wayans - Seymour Stewart

“- Grace Faraday: Where have you been all my miserable life ?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Drinking.
- Grace Faraday: That's no profession.”
Emma Stone - Grace Faraday
Ryan Gosling - Sgt. Jerry Wooters

“Lesley: He quit... or got fired.
Riggan: Which is it, quit or fired?
Lesley: Well, with Mike it's usually both.”

Naomi Watts - Lesley
Michael Keaton - Riggan

“- Diane: Why don't you take me home?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: I go to law school now. I have to go home and study. The only reason I came by here, is because I appreciate the fine music.
- Diane: I thought you worked in a Beauty Parlor?
- Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell: Yeah, I do - during the day.”
Kelle Kipp - Diane
Mickey Rourke - Robert 'Boogie' Sheftell

“- Norman Bates: Mary works with me at the diner. She's been staying here, too.
- Dr. Raymond: Really?
- Norman Bates: Oh, it's not like that. We're just... we're just friends.”
Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates
Robert Loggia - Dr. Bill Raymond

“- Orville: Philo... Jordan said he'd give us 200 big ones if we scrap that Merc for him.
- Philo Beddoe: Great. Clyde? Scrap the Merc.”
Geoffrey Lewis - Orville
Clint Eastwood - Philo Beddoe

“Everything you are and everything you have, is because of that butler.”
Oprah Winfrey - Gloria Gaines

“- Pete Klein: Have you thought about what you'll do when your contract is up?
- Gus: Sure, sign another one for more money.”
John Goodman - Pete Klein
Clint Eastwood - Gus

“- Colonel Brandon: What can I do?
- Elinor Dashwood: Colonel, you have done so much already...
- Colonel Brandon: Give me an occupation, Miss Dashwood, or I shall run mad.”
Alan Rickman - Colonel Brandon
Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood

“Avoid women directors. They ovulate. Do you have any idea what that does to a three month shoot?”
Kevin Spacey - Buddy Ackerman