Job quotes

- 1st Interviewer: Mr. Murphy, do you mean that you lied on your application?
- Spud: No! Uh. Yes. Only to get my foot in the door. Showing initiative and that like.
- 1st Interviewer: But you were referred here by the department of employment, there was no need for you to get your "foot in the door", as you put it.
- Spud: Ehhh... cool.... (continue)(continue reading)

Ewen Bremner - Spud

“- Club Patron: So, what do you do?
- Patrick Bateman: I'm into, uh, well, murders and executions, mostly.
- Club Patron: Do you like it?
- Patrick Bateman: Well, it depends. Why?
- Club Patron: Well, most guys I know who are in Mergers and Acquisitions really don't like it.”
Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman

“My job requires a certain moral flexibility.”

Aaron Eckhart - Nick Naylor

“- Ilsa Lund: I said I would never leave you.
- Rick Blaine: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of.”
Ingrid Bergman - Ilsa Lund
Humphrey Bogart - Rick Blaine

“- Troy Bolton: What was the first thing you said to me when I started working here?
- Sharpay Evans: Bring me more iced tea?”

Zac Efron - Troy Bolton
Ashley Tisdale - Sharpay Evans

“Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.”
Robert Morley

“I'm a pants salesman. I think I know how to act around people.”

David Koechner - Buck

“Nobody wants me to quit. You know, don't quit, don't get caught, stay on top long enough for us to knock you off - I mean, that's the motto around here. Nobody wants me to quit. The cops want to bust me. The Colombians want my connections. My wife, she wants my money. Her lawyer agrees and mine likes getting paid to argue with him. Nobody wants...” (continue)(continue reading)

Mel Gibson - McKussic

“I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.”
John Cusack - Lloyd Dobler

“I lost my job. Actually I didn't lose it. It lost me. I'm overeducated, underskilled - maybe it's the other way around. I forget - but I'm obsolete. I'm not economically viable. I can't even support my own kid.”
Michael Douglas - D-Fens

“- Gabriella Montez: My mom said summer jobs are good on college applications.
- Troy Bolton: All part of the frightening concept called our future.”
Vanessa Hudgens - Gabriella Montez
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“- Moly: Oh, no, no guns. You are top-flight unarmed security guards.
- Craig Jones: What about walkie talkies?
- Day-Day: And some flashlights. In case we catch some girl giving up some head right in the back behind the trash cans, I could come back there with the flashlight and catch her.
- Moly: You guys are supposed to be big, tough...” (continue)(continue reading)

Maz Jobrani - Moly
Ice Cube - Craig Jones
Mike Epps - Day-Day

“If you've ever seen the look on somebody's face the day they finally get a job, I've had some experience with this, they look like they could fly. And it's not about the paycheck, it's about respect, it's about looking in the mirror and knowing that you've done something valuable with your day.”
Kevin Kline - Dave Kovic

“- Mickey: You had the talent to become a good fighter, but instead of that, you become a legbreaker to some cheap, second rate loanshark!
- Rocky: It's a living.
- Mickey: It's a waste of life!”
Burgess Meredith - Mickey
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“- Mr. Fulton: Danforth. Bolton. You're caddying today. Fourty dollars a bag. You've been requested.
- Chad Danforth: What?
- Troy Bolton: By who?
- Chad Danforth: Dude, who cares? For 40 bucks, I'd caddy for Godzilla.”
Mark L. Taylor - Mr. Fulton
Corbin Bleu - Chad Danforth
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“The only difference between a derelict and a man is a job.”
William Powell - Godfrey

“This is the kid, calls me 59 days in a row, wants to be a player. There ought to be a picture of you in the dictionary under persistence kid.”

Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“If you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: first, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you have to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job, and open your case of scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee? You can keep it. All I want in return for my services is the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Pete Postlethwaite - Roland Tembo

“- Moly: You guys are top-flight security, best in the whole wide world. You have to defend this whole place with your own lives.
- Day-Day: And I'd die for this shit too. ”
Maz Jobrani - Moly
Mike Epps - Day-Day

“What are you looking at? You're laborers; you should be laboring. That's what you get for not having an education.”
William Atherton - Prof. Jerry Hathaway

“I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open.”

Bruce Greenwood - Lawrence Robertson

“- Felix Cortez: Whatever this man has told you is a lie. He lies for a living!
- Ernesto Escobedo: He is in the Intelligence business.
- Felix Cortez: Exactly.”

Joaquim de Almeida - Felix Cortez
Miguel Sandoval - Ernesto Escobedo

“- Bud: What does your daddy do?
- Pam: Daddy does oil… and all that that implies.”
John Travolta - Bud
Madolyn Smith Osborne - Pam

“You bitch! Why didn't you just tell me it was a Rum and Coke?!”

Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

“- Elijah Price: Why is it, do you think, that of all the professions in the world you chose protection?
- David Dunn: You are a very strange man.
- Elijah Price: You could have been a tax accountant. You could have owned your own gym. You could have opened a chain of restaurants. You could've done of ten thousand things, but in the end, you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Samuel L. Jackson - Elijah Price
Bruce Willis - David Dunn