103 Movie Quotes about Career (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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

1 Where we came from, if one didn't want to die of poverty, one became a priest or a bandit.

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2 My whole career was ruined by some crazy jerk riding a homemade rocket.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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

Peter Boyle as Wizard in Taxi Driver (1976)

4 Such a pity. You threw away a promising career. -Consider it my highest honor, sir.

Kevin Kline as Captain Phoebus; Tony Jay as Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

5 Come on, now, don't be naive. We both know how careers are made. Integrity is something you sell to the public.

Robert Vaughn as Walter Chalmers in Bullitt (1968)

6 I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. Gosh, I wish we could all live in the mountains. At high altitudes. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you?

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

7 My career is stuffing jelly into doughnuts.

Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

8 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

9 You know, I spend my whole life getting a career. I get one, and you tell me it's over.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

10 Frosty, my boss, told me there's a big future in weight guessing.

Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk

103 Movie Quotes about Career (+ Sound Clips)

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