47 Movie Quotes about Layoffs (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: May 3, 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.

31 I am telling you, if you dismiss my girls tomorrow, it will be wrong! A sin, as any sin ever was one!

Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton in The Remains of the Day

32 Don't worry. Don't worry. I'm not gonna do what everyone thinks I'm gonna do. Flip out, man!

Jim Breuer as Brian in Half Baked

33 I got fired 'cause management was restructuring. -Yeah, restructuring the amount of retards they had workin' for 'em.

Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting

34 What are you doing up on that desk? Never mind what you're doing, you're fired.

Dick Powell as Jimmy in Christmas in July (1944)

35 Was it something I did? He never expressed any unhappiness with my work.

Anthony Daniels as C 3po in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

36 First thing to be done is get rid of that bear. He's gumming up the whole project.

Gopher From Winnie The Pooh in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

37 Good luck with your layoffs, all right? I hope your firings go really well.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

38 They wondered if it'd be possible to fire 500000. Maybe from one of the smaller companies where no one would notice...

Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element

39 I gotta let you go. -How come? I'm working hard. I'm doing good. -Yeah, real good, but we gotta cut back on manpower, and you ain't got enough time in, you know? Seniority.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

40 He got laid off at work and started working odd jobs.

Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers in Sling Blade (1996)