43 Movie Quotes about Profession (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 7, 2025

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

1 Profession? -School teacher.

Charlie Chaplin as King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

2 In my profession, you trust too much, you don't celebrate many birthdays.

John Wayne as J.B. Books in The Shootist

3 Stay in school and use your brain. Be a doctor, be a lawyer, carry a leather briefcase. Forget about sports as a profession. Sports make you grunt and smell. See, be a thinker, not a stinker.

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky (1976)

4 Bandit? Is that your name or your profession?

Sally Field as Carrie "Frog" in Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

5 Perhaps it's time you tried a new profession. What I mean is, you don't seem to be a very good thief. Maybe you should try something else.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

6 It's an honorable profession, practiced with the blessings of the elders for over 4000 years.

Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo in Battlestar Galactica (1978)

7 Can men of our profession worry about things like that? May even be sacrilegious.

Yul Brynner as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

8 Profession: movie star. Problem: survival.

Jack Palance as Charlie Castle in The Big Knife (1955)

9 I did not kill your wife. I tried to save her. -With a knife in your hand? Doctor, I have no faith in your profession.

Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes; Joseph Cotten as Dr. Vesalius in The Abominable Dr. Phibes

10 You seem to have forgotten the principles of our profession. Let me introduce you to a couple of friends who can explain them to you.

Quote from King Boxer: Fingers of Death

43 Movie Quotes about Profession (+ Sound Clips)

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