116 Movie Quotes about Career (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

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.

11 You had a job that you thought made a difference, that you thought was honorable. And then you see this.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger

12 You got a soft job and good pay. Stop thinking about what might have been. And who knows... You may live to die in bed. That's all, Joe.

Richard Conte as Mr. Brown in The Big Combo (1955)

13 Give me a career as a buccaneer...

Bobby Driscoll as Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1953)

14 My friends, we are about to embark on the most odious, the most evil, the most diabolical scheme of my illustrious career.

Barrie Ingham as Basil The Mouse Detective in The Great Mouse Detective

15 All right, Father, listen here. Ya see, I've made up my mind. I am going to be a bobsledder. That's right. A bobsledder.

Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevil in Cool Runnings

16 Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family.

Ewan McGregor as Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996)

17 I've worked too hard for too long to get here and I am not going to jeopardize it for some garbage boy who got lucky. Got it?

Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou in Ratatouille

18 I got a motto: Like your work, love your wife.

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

19 Tell her to pick another career.

Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills in Taken (2008)

20 And if it doesn't work for you, it's because you're lazy. And you should get a job at McDonald's.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street