47 Movie Quotes about Retirement (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Aug 4, 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.

21 Sister, I thought you'd retired as a Vestal virgin.

Christopher Plummer as Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

22 You retired too? -Not me. I'm in my prime.

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993)

23 I'm too old for this sort of thing. Just wake me up when the planet's destroyed.

Bob Holt as Avatar in Wizards (1977)

24 Retired? Does that mean like my tax pays you a pension? -That's right.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)

25 We'd like to retire and maintain the same lifestyle without paying a lot of taxes.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

26 Everybody wants to be like Mike. -Yeah, and you're going to be retired like him too.

Will Smith as Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys (1995)

27 Old soldiers, Miss Dandridge. Hah! Someday, you'll learn how they hate to give up.

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

28 I can't chew the leather anymore. So, why should I share the tribe's provisions?

Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman (1992)

29 Youngest retirement in the service. Account of my heart. Not heart trouble, you understand. An accident on one of cal's fishing trips. A hunter. Got the slug right here.

Frank Sinatra as John Baron in Suddenly (1954)

30 I don't know. Lodged in my heart. They took it out. Had to take it easy, so they retired me.

Frank Sinatra as John Baron in Suddenly (1954)

47 Movie Quotes about Retirement (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Latest Movie Sound Bites

Poll