11 Movie Quotes about Burnout (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: February 24, 2025

Memorable quotes about burnout, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 You understand? You get a job, you become the job.

Peter Boyle as Wizard in Taxi Driver (1976)

2 Today, we rest. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

3 Dad, I remember you coming home some night so overworked, your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop them. -I remember that.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

4 A vacation? Hm. Why, I haven't had one of those since... Well, I've never had one of those.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

5 There isn't anything in this world quite so exhausting as relaxing.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

6 I give all my time and energy to my duties and what do I get? -You get awfully tiresome after a while.

Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly in Duck Soup (1933)

7 If your nerves are raw and your brain is fried, Just grab a friend and take a ride together on the open road.

Quote from A Goofy Movie (1995)

8 Say, that's a bad twitch in your eye. You been working too hard. You ought to take a vacation.

Quote from You Can't Take It with You (1939)

9 Clear your mind! Think, think anything a poem, a song! Don't let them burn your mind!

Quote from The Flight of Dragons (1982)

10 Too much stuff piling up on my desk. Too much pressure on my nerves. I spend half the night walking up and down in my bed. I've got to have an assistant and I thought of you.

Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity