Working quotes

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
Edgar Bergen

“- Rey: You're offering me a job?
- Han Solo: I'm considering it.”
Daisy Ridley - Rey
Harrison Ford - Han Solo

“I don't believe in careers. I believe in work.”
Debra Winger

“You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.”
John Candy

“- Alfred Pennyworth: I trust you don't have me followed on my day off.
- Bruce Wayne: If you ever took one, I might.”
Sir Michael Caine - Alfred Pennyworth
Christian Bale - Bruce Wayne

“- Richard Parker: Now all of this could be yours, Lar, if you set your goals and work hard.
- Larry Wilson: My old man worked hard. All they did was give him more work.”

Jonathan Silverman - Richard Parker
Andrew McCarthy - Larry Wilson

“I don't think you pick your projects; you fall in love with them.”
Morten Tyldum

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne

“I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.”
Ken Jeong

“Always be prepared; always work hard and take pride in your work no matter what it is.”
Allen Covert

“If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.”
Rachel Ticotin

“I do nothing professionally, I do everything for fun.”
Prince - Christopher Tracy

“Coal mining may be your life, but it's not mine. I'm never going down there again. I wanna go into space.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Homer Hickam

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

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
Robert Charles Benchley

“- Annie: She does all the work around here, and you don't even know her first name.
- Daddy Warbucks: I do, it's Grace.
- Annie: She thinks you're the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie
Albert Finney - Daddy Warbucks

“- Danny Pope: So, what are you doing over the summer?
- Lorna Phillips: I have a job pumping gas.
- Danny Pope: You finally got the Supreme Court to hear your case, huh?
- Lorna Phillips: Yeah.”
River Phoenix - Danny Pope
Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips

“I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.”
Steve Guttenberg

“I only really work when I want to.”
Ned Beatty

“You know you better get back here and fuck me you bastard, if you wanted me to come up with any kind of dinner!”
Mena Suvari - Cookie

“The richest one percent of this country owns half our country's wealth, five trillion dollars. One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“Don't worry. Some of the best movies are made by people working together who hate each other's guts.”
Kirk Douglas - Jonathan

“I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.”
Jon Bernthal

“If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.”
Jon Bernthal

“Gentlemen, I did not seek this command, but since it's been assigned me, I intend to make this regiment the finest on the frontier. I fully realize that prolonged duty in a small outpost can lead to carelessness... and inefficiency and laxity in dress and deportment. I call it to your attention that only one of you has reported here this morning...” (continue) (continue reading)

Henry Fonda - Lt. Col. Owen Thursday