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

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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 Quit? -Quit. -I want to save part of my life for myself. -There's a catch to it though. It's got to be part of the young part. You know, retire young and work old. Come back and work when I know what I'm working for.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

23 Land ho! Beachfront property! Retirement estates! Bikinis!

Statler And Waldorf in Muppet Treasure Island

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

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993)

25 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)

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

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Colonel John Matrix in Commando (1985)

27 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

28 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)

29 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

30 You see, it's always been my idea to make a few thousands early in the game and then quit for as long as they'd last and try to find out who I am and what goes on and what about it... now, while I'm young and feel good all the time.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)