37 Movie Quotes about Laziness (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Sep 4, 2025

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

21 How'd you boss this job? By sitting here in your office cheating yourself at solitaire?

Edward G. Robinson as Little Caesar in Little Caesar (1931)

22 Yes, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

23 Did you want something? -No. -Well then, back to work. Remember, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

24 You are symptomatic of the lazy, unimaginative management which is driving this country on the rocks!

Noël Coward as Mr. Bridger in The Italian Job (1969)

25 English prisoners. Let us ask the question why does the bridge not progress? You know why, because your officers are lazy!

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

26 Are you stone deaf? -Me? I'm not deaf, just lazy.

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

27 Why walk when one can ride? Of course! It's the answer to my dilemma.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

28 Nothing to do but sit around on our backsides for months, starin' at a bunch of angry boars. Mm-hmm.

Billy Crudup as Ashitaka in Princess Mononoke

29 You have hibernation sickness.

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

30 Oh, dear Lord, not jogging.

Frank Oz as Miss Piggy in The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

37 Movie Quotes about Laziness (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

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