50 Movie Quotes about Retirement with Audio – Page 3

Updated: Mar 29, 2026

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21 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)

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

Statler And Waldorf in Muppet Treasure Island

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

Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo in Tombstone (1993)

24 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)

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

Quote from Commando (1985)

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

Quote from The Pursuit of Happyness

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

Will Smith as Mike Lowrey; Joe Pantoliano as Conrad Howard in Bad Boys (1995)

28 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

29 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)

30 Yeah, the busy life of a retiree. Every day a new adventure.

Quote from Taken (2008)