30 Movie Quotes about Labor (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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

1 Oh, king? That's very nice. How did you get that? By exploiting the workers!

Michael Palin as Sir Galahad in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

2 Yeah. I could use a good mule driver, maybe 2 or 3.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

3 A city is built of brick, Pharaoh. The strong make many. The starving make few. The dead make none.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

4 What's not fair is me doing manual labor. I'm badly in need of a manicure.

Arsenio Hall in Coming to America (1988)

5 I would ask my driver to help you, but he detests physical labor.

Quote from The Silence of the Lambs

6 Do you ever hear of Thanksgiving or Labor Day or the Fourth of July? -Vaguely.

Fred Astaire as Ted Hanover; Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

7 What's she doing here? -Cheap serf labor. I pay her by the lifetime.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in The Big Knife (1955)

8 Hey. Let's agree on a division of labor right now. You do the driving. We'll do the talking. -All right.

Clint Eastwood as Jonathan Hemlock in The Eiger Sanction

9 If ever there is to be peace in the world, the vast majority of mankind who produce the raw material out of Asia and Africa must first be freed and given a proper share of the wealth of their labor.

Quote from Destination Freedom

10 Slaves are wealth, Commander. The more slaves we have, the more bricks we make.

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)