49 Movie Quotes about Layoffs with Audio

Updated: Nov 10, 2026

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1 Just think of it as you're being let go, that your life's going in a different direction, that your body's part of a permanent outplacement.

Quote from The Emperor's New Groove

2 Looks like you're out of a job.

John Goodman as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan; James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters, Inc.

3 Finish the job, or you're fired!

Head Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

4 So how does that work with you bein' fired and all?

Patrick Warburton as Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove

5 You can be replaced, you know.

Pat Buttram as Napoleon in The Aristocats

6 Hey, that's kind of like what he said to you when you got fired.

Patrick Warburton as Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove

7 The mill's closed. There's no more work. We're destitute. Come in, my little loves. I've got no option but to sell you all, for scientific experiments.

Michael Palin in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

8 And a firm is only as young as its employees. My father fired anyone who got over 50. Man, woman, or child, it didn't matter to him.

Quote from The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

9 Who the hell do they think they are, telling me what to do? It's my show! I do the hiring and firing around here. Anybody don't like it, they can pick up their pay and get out.

Clint Eastwood as Bronco Billy in Bronco Billy

10 You're fired.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker in True Lies