48 Movie Quotes about Layoffs (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Oct 26, 2025

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

21 You see, chubby, you're not only fired from this institution, but I'm going to make sure you never get hired by any other college in the state, the country, the world, maybe even the universe.

Larry Miller as Dean Richmond in The Nutty Professor (1996)

22 We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

John C. Mcginley in Office Space

23 Well, if we do get canned, we won't be the only ones to lose our jobs because of a machine. -I understand thousands of people are being replaced by these electronic brains.

Joan Blondell as Peg Costello in Desk Set (1957)

24 Well, if we do have to leave, they're sure making it easy for us.

Joan Blondell as Peg Costello in Desk Set (1957)

25 No, no, no! Hey, man. Hey, bro. It's cool, man. They got fired!

Jay Chandrasekhar as Arcot "Thorny" Ramathorn in Super Troopers

26 I wasn't fired from my job, I was laid off! But you wouldn't know the difference.

Will Ferrell as Brennan Huff in Step Brothers (2008)

27 No, don't move. I'd like to remember you just as you are... Fired!

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in The Jetsons

28 Dear Santa, could you send me a bike and a Slinky? No! Your father's been laid off!

Sinbad as Myron Larabee in Jingle All the Way (1996)

29 You are through. Finished. Fired. Up. Out. Out. Over. Up. Out.

Vincent Price as Egghead in Batman (1966)

30 I'm sorry, madame. I can't eat fish. -Well, there are plenty who can, so pack up and get out!

Martha Raye as Annabella Bonheur in Monsieur Verdoux

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