103 Movie Quotes about Career (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 It's just that... if I'm totally honest with myself, I think I'd rather die knowing that I was really good at something, that I had excelled in some way. You know? Than that I'd just been in a nice, caring relationship.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

52 You vowed never egain to ever let a man come between you and your career. Except now you're in love with me, and it scares you a little.

Clint Eastwood as Agent Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire

53 What were to happen if I gave up my job for you? -Why would you do that? -Maybe I vowed to never let my career come between me and a woman.

Clint Eastwood as Agent Frank Horrigan in In the Line of Fire

54 She's a born painter and might be a very important one, but she must eat, and she also prefers a roof over her head to being constantly out in the rain and snow. -Food and a roof.

James Stewart as Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)

55 And your family doesn't object to your career? -They do indeed. Daddy threatened to cut me off without a cent.

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar; Tony Curtis as Joe in Some Like It Hot

56 She doesn't need the job. You know, career... She's a career girl. -Oh, I see. Certainly.

Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

57 She wants to be waitress in drive-in restaurant. Waitress! Your wife got ambition like that? -No.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

58 Still want the job? -Well, a man's gotta plant roots somewhere. This seems like a nice, quiet place. Friendly, too.

Sterling Hayden as Johnny Guitar Logan in Johnny Guitar (1954)

59 And now surely you have enough diamonds. -Oh, diamonds is my career.

Gilbert Roland as Sergei Stanieff; Mae West as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)

60 Uncle, I may have the blood for the job, but I sure don't have the stomach for it.

Boris Karloff as Baron Boris Von Frankenstein in Mad Monster Party? (1967)

103 Movie Quotes about Career (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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