102 Movie Quotes about Career (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 19, 2025

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

21 Tell her to pick another career.

Quote from Taken (2008)

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

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street

23 I wish I was a kindergarten teacher, but I'm not. I'm a cop. That's all I know how to be.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop

24 Now we both have fine futures-marriage, stimulating careers.

Roddy McDowall as Cornelius in Planet of the Apes (1968)

25 I can't believe you're a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.

Quote from Happy Gilmore

26 It's funny about this place. When I grew up, I hated farming. All I wanted to do was work on race-cars. Got to racing. Now all I want to do is to make enough money to work on a farm.

Michael Rooker as Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder

27 I gave away five years at the end of my career to drinking. Five years. There isn't anything I wouldn't give to get back any one day of it.

Tom Hanks as Jimmy Dugan in A League of Their Own

28 The grande finale. The climax of my performance. The zenith of my career!

Cesar Romero as The Joker in Batman (1966)

29 Hi. I don't know what it is about me and employment, we start out together, but sooner or later we reach the fork in the road. Usually sooner.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune

30 Get out of the way. Mister, you better find yourself another line of work. This one sure don't fit your pistol.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist