56 Funny Quotes About Work from Movies (+ Audio Clips) - page 5

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

A collection of funny quotes about work from movies, complete with audio samples in mp3 & wav formats — great for ringtones or laughs.

41 When I think of the time and the money I've wasted on your training, and you still turn out to be a blithering idiot.

Stacy Keach as Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke

42 He worked really hard, Grandma. So do washing machines.

Chevy Chase as Clark in Christmas Vacation (1989)

43 We've got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, gentlemen.

Cleavon Little as Sheriff Bart in Blazing Saddles (1974)

44 Our high school guidance counselor used to ask us what you would do if you had a million dollars, didn't have to work. And, invariably, whatever you'd say, that was supposed to be your career.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

45 What would you say you do here?

John C. Mcginley in Office Space

46 So, you working hard or hardly working?

Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

47 I guess I'll be late for work again. At least I'm late much earlier today.

George O'Hanlon as George Jetson in The Jetsons

48 I mean, take me. I love my work. -So did Hitler.

Bradley Whitford in A Perfect World

49 Hi. I don't know what it is about me and work that keeps the two of us from ever going steady Eddie...

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune

50 You know what they say? All work and no play makes somebody a, uh, somethin' or other.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh