102 Movie Quotes about Career (Sound Clips) - page 4

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.

31 Oh, I don't know really. I just sort of do it. You see, my aunt said that spaceship guard was a good career for a young Vogon, you know. The uniform, the low-slung stun-ray holster, the mindless tedium...

Quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

32 There's your first week's pay. -Thanks, Mr. Rico. Now I'm ready for the big stuff. Maybe even a killing.

Zero Mostel as Big Babe Lazick in The Enforcer (1951)

33 What have you been doing all day? -Shopping. -Some career, huh? Six days a week, she shops. On the seventh, she rests. All tired out.

Lee Marvin as Vince Stone in The Big Heat (1953)

34 Law school? Hey, you don't want to be no stinking lawyer with a stinking briefcase in a stinking office, do you, Joey? Nah.

Robert Strauss as Stanislas Animal Kuzawa in Stalag 17 (1953)

35 Next time we write to your folks, you know what you're gonna say? You're gonna say that you don't wanna be no lawyer. That you wanna be a musician, maybe, huh? And play the flute. Yeah, Joey?

Robert Strauss as Stanislas Animal Kuzawa in Stalag 17 (1953)

36 Yes, dad told me he heard you were in some kind of building work. -Well, that's a hopeful way of putting it. I'm really in the junk business.

Quote from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

37 I would deem it an honor to be a your honor.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

38 Son, if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes, now that would have been a tragedy.

Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

39 I still remember the day she came in looking for work. She wanted to be a secretary. She had all the requirements: She made a great cup of coffee. I gave her a job. That was yesterday.

Garfield in Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)

40 Sounds like a pretty tame profession, doll. Not exactly the job where enemies can be made.