Job quotes

“- Vince: Well, you can take an early retirement, collect disability. With the pension we offer you should be comfortable.
- Gus: Save it. Being comfortable is overrated.”
Robert Patrick - Vince
Clint Eastwood - Gus

“I have an uncomplicated job: to determine if a fire is arson or not, and if so, to catch the son of a bitch doing it. And if my investigative methods happen to muck up the campaign of certain mayor wannabes, I gotta tell ya... I'm not gonna go losing any sleep over it.”
Robert De Niro - Donald Rimgale

“I wanted to be a pharmacist. I liked the way our local pharmacist was always dressed in a nice white coat; he looked very calm, you'd give him money, and he'd give you something that you wanted to buy.”
Walter Matthau

“- Harley Quinn: Are you the Devil?
- Amanda Waller: All you need to know is you work for me.”
Margot Robbie - Harley Quinn
Viola Davis - Amanda Waller

“- Jackson Healy: You were in the pool?
- Holland March: Yeah
- Jackson Healy: Why?
- Holland March: I had to question the mermaids. What were you doing while I was working?”
Russell Crowe - Jackson Healy
Ryan Gosling - Holland March

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”
Cary Grant

“My job is to represent the interest of the people, make an effort to be objective.”
Campbell Scott - Ethan Thomas

“I was such a new star he could have ended my career within fifteen minutes after I walked out of that office. I had no interest in being a waiter.”

Clark Gable

“- 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

“For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!”
Henry Fonda

“Old bastards can be hard to work for sometimes, but, hell, if you worked for Joe, I think you'll do just fine.”

Bob Olsen - Farmer

“- Brewster: I don't care who does what to whom in this country, but you're an American citizen, that makes you my responsibility. You're so lucky not to be floating face down in the Tiber right now. So please, finish your lousymovie and try to stay out of trouble for five minutes.
- Orson Welles: Maybe you're right.
- Brewster: I know I'm...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Walken - Brewster
Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?”
Morgan Freeman

“If I'm not working, I really have nothing to do with it - I'm not hanging out and mixing with film people.”
Christian Bale

“- Rick Ford: I've swallowed enough microchips and shit them back out again to make a computer. This arm has been ripped off completely and re-attached with this fuckin' arm.
- Susan Cooper: I don't know that that's possible... I mean medically...”
Jason Statham - Rick Ford
Melissa McCarthy - Susan Cooper

“- PC Danny Butterman: What do you think?
- Nicholas Angel: Well, I wouldn't argue that it wasn't a no-holds-barred, adrenaline-fueled thrill ride. But there is no way you can perpetrate that amount of carnage and mayhem and not incur a considerable amount of paperwork.”

Nick Frost - PC Danny Butterman
Simon Pegg - Nicholas Angel

“If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.”
Harrison Ford

“I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.”
Harrison Ford

“I'm looking for errand boys...”

Brian Tee - Shredder

“I just really love doing what I do. I know every career is fleeting and there will be time periods when I don't get the opportunities that I'm getting right now, so I am taking advantage of them.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“By the time I'd worked for three lawyers, I'd been chased around desks so often I figured I had what it takes for more important endeavors like show business.”
Mamie van Doren

“I am really a very fine worrier. I worry about almost anything. I worry about all my picture roles. But I do all my serious worrying away from the studio. For instance, I have a nice swimming pool. I worry about it being a waste of space in the back yard.”
William Powell

“Well, I remember when I used to go into managers' offices to apply for jobs. I always was afraid I'd be either too short or too tall for the role I was applying for. So I used to scrooch down as little as I could, so that if they said I was too small I could suddenly grow up right there before their eyes.”

Mary Pickford

“Most executives at the big studios have no guts — they're so busy holding on to their jobs they never stick their necks out. Know how [Ernst] Lubitsch found out the other day that he was no longer head of Paramount?”
Clark Gable

“You gotta dress for the job you want, not the job you got.”
Bernie Mac - Mitch Gilliam