44 Movie Quotes about Profession (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jan 6, 2026

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 Because I can't keep track of your professions, honey.

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street

2 Profession? -School teacher.

Quote from A King in New York (1957)

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 You're a thief. -Close. I'm an attorney.

Steve Martin as Neal Page in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

6 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

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

Quote from Battlestar Galactica (1978)

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

Quote from The Magnificent Seven (1960)

9 Profession: movie star. Problem: survival.

Quote from The Big Knife (1955)

10 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