74 Movie Quotes about Productivity with Audio – Page 5

Updated: Sep 28, 2026

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41 Gee, it looks like you've really got your hands full.

Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold; Beverly Dangelo in Vacation (1983)

42 Working hard or hardly working, eh, Mac?

Mike Myers as Shrek in Shrek 2

43 Lazy, I want to be lazy. I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

44 Everybody's as busy as little bees.

Quote from The Green Berets (1968)

45 Sorry. A bit busy at the moment. You seem to have rather a lot to get on with yourself.

Quote from Brazil (1985)

46 It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.

Clint Eastwood as Inspector Dirty Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact (1983)

47 My time is extremely valuable, so I can stick away into minutes, minutes become hours, hours disappear into days and weeks, weeks suddenly form months and months have a habit of becoming years.

Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters in Champagne for Caesar

48 Newton, we are wasting valueless time.

Fisher Stevens as Ben Jabituya in Short Circuit (1986)

49 I seem to be inept at everything except my work. I'm good at my work. So I confine myself to that.

Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network (1976)

50 I'm sorry about the mess, but I've got a deadline to meet. And when you're freelancing, you have to look like an idiot.

Quote from Longstreet