48 Movie Quotes about Promotion (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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

11 Promote them all, I say, because this is true...

Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in A Few Good Men

12 He says that you're the first person ever to refuse a promotion. He thinks you should see a doctor.

Katherine Helmond as Mrs Ida Lowry in Brazil (1985)

13 They'll probably make you a general for destroying evidence that they're wrong.

Douglas Spencer as Scotty in The Thing from Another World

14 No. I got a promotion today. Now I'm a jelly doughnut taster.

Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners (1955)

15 This fellow knows how to defend a hopeless position. Raise him to corporal. -Yes, sir.

Christopher Plummer as Duke Of Wellington in Waterloo (1970)

16 You've been promoted. Faithful service. -Do I get a raise? -No. Fair enough? -Fair enough.

Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell in Gilda (1946)

17 Do what you must, Colonel. Just don't tell me about it. A president's conscience must be unblemished. You understand my meaning, General? -As the hand understands the glove.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

18 A promotion? Huh! You're lucky I'm giving you your old job back.

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

19 I'd say you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with.

Peter Sellers as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove in Dr. Strangelove

20 Let's find out if he's even a doctor first before we go promoting him, okay? -Okay.

Charlton Heston as Robert Neville in The Omega Man (1971)