Working quotes

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

“A set should be like a family, except that you all actually like each other.”
Taika Waititi

“- 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

“- Moseby: What kind of work are you in, Bernie?
- Ralph: I'm retired.
- Moseby: Oh? From what?
- Ralph: From all the big hairy bullshit.”
Roy Cooper - Moseby
Richard B. Shull - Ralph

“- 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

“It don't take much strength to pull a trigger but try getting up every morning day after day and work for a living, let's see him try that, then we'll see who the real tough guy is, the working man is the tough guy.”

Robert De Niro - Lorenzo

“Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don't go hand in hand. If you admit that you play the accordion no one will hire you in a rock 'n' roll band. But we can sing out hearts out. And if we're lucky, then no neighbors complain. Because life is the way we audition for God. Let us pray that we all get the job.”

Dustin Hoffman - Chuck Clarke
Warren Beatty - Lyle Rogers

“- Peter Banning: It's Brad, Moira. I gotta take this call. I've gotta fix this.
- Moira Banning: No, you've got to fix your family first.”

Robin Williams - Peter Banning
Caroline Goodall - Moira Banning

“For 14 years I've been a whore for the advertising industry. The only way I could save myself now is if I start firebombing.”

Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham

“- 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