30 Movie Quotes about Labor with Audio

Updated: Apr 8, 2026

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1 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

2 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

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 Waitressing is the number-one occupation for female non-college graduates in this country. It's the one job basically any woman can get and make a living on. The reason is because of their tips.

Harvey Keitel as Mister White in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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

Quote from The Ten Commandments (1956)

6 Wait, I get you. I gotta be nicer to my slave labor, right? Chubby over there. I thought so. Say no more. I'll treat him with kid gloves.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

7 Wages? Do you wanna be wage slaves? Answer me that. No. No, of course not. Well, what makes wage slaves? Wages. I want you to be free.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

8 No, because it's no longer profitable to keep slaves. Slaves do not produce as much as free men. Let us do what is profitable, and right.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

9 Same as always. One bag of seed. -You call this pay? -It's chicken feed.

Julia Sawalha as Ginger; Timothy Spall as Nick; Phil Daniels as Fetcher; Nick and Fetcher in Chicken Run

10 This is worth 10 months of suffering and labor, this joke is.

Walter Huston as Howard in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre