24 Movie Quotes about Labor (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

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.

11 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

12 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)

13 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)

14 You don't have any idea what you're talking about. These people bust their _. This is a hard job. -So's working at McDonald's, but you don't feel the need to tip them, do you? Well, why not? They're serving you food.

Harvey Keitel as Mister White; Steve Buscemi as Mister Pink in Reservoir Dogs (1992)

15 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)

16 You think about the people that built this country, hardworking people like you. Firefighters, teachers, FBI agents.

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

17 Cheap slave labor. That's what the south wants to fight for.

Claire Trevor as Mary McCloud in Dark Command (1940)

18 From the mountaintops of North Korea to the jungles of Zimbabwe, let every child laborer and sweatshop factory worker sing, Oppressed at last! Oppressed at last! Thank Aladeen, I am oppressed at last!

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

19 Oh, I implore ya, gimme but a morsel, a tidbit, and I shall repay you with labor. Anything ya need. Name it, name it. Chop wood, beat a rug, jelly eels? Fix a fig, maybe.

Daws Butler as Snagglepuss in Snagglepuss (1961)

20 The labor of centuries gone in an instant.

Rod Taylor as H. George Wells in The Time Machine (1960)

24 Movie Quotes about Labor (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

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