49 Movie Quotes about Retirement (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 31, 2025

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

1 I've been out to pasture, pal. My ambition gone. Content to spend lazy days and to graze my lawn.

Tate Donovan as Hercules in Hercules

2 On an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone. Surrounded by enormous piles of money.

Mandy Moore as Rapunzel in Tangled

3 Well, I been with the best, and I've beat the best. I've retired more men than Social Security!

Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed in Rocky IV (1985)

4 Joe Louis came out of retirement to fight Marciano. The man was 76 years old.

Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem in Coming to America (1988)

5 Captain of a troop one day, every man's face turned towards you, lieutenants jump when I growl. Now, tomorrow I'll be glad if a blacksmith asks me to shoe a horse.

John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

6 I'm gonna retire. Where's Arabia? -I don't know. I haven't got my atlas.

Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton in Knock on Any Door (1949)

7 Soon will I rest. Yes. Forever sleep. Earned it I have.

Frank Oz as Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

8 Why not? -Two words, I am retired.

Danny Devito as Philoctetes Phil in Hercules

9 In a shack by the sea, I'll sit back sipping tea. Let my early retirement commence.

David Ogden Stiers as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1991)

10 Brother, I'm so tired of all these official duties, and I've made up my mind to retire at last.

Quote from The Invincible Armour