100 Movie Quotes about Salary (+ Sound Clips) - page 5

Updated: Sep 24, 2025

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

41 Look, boss, I thought we had a deal. You'd give me no wages, but I could eat as much food as I wanted. -Huh? You eat too much! How was I to know that? Huh?

Quote from Mysterious Footworks of Kung Fu

42 Colored can't earn that kinda money, boy. Hell, that's more than I make in a month. Now, where did you earn it? -Philadelphia. -Mississippi? -Pennsylvania.

Rod Steiger as Bill Gillespie in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

43 You take him outside, Wood, but treat him easy. Because a man that makes $162.39 a week, man, we do not want to ruffle him! -No, sir.

Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)

44 Two thousand dollars. It's a lot of money. Takes me three years to earn it.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in For a Few Dollars More

45 Now, as to salary, it's quite good. $200 a month. -That is good.

Frances Dee as Betsy Connell in I Walked with a Zombie

46 There's your first week's pay. -Thanks, Mr. Rico. Now I'm ready for the big stuff. Maybe even a killing.

Zero Mostel as Big Babe Lazick in The Enforcer (1951)

47 What job always pays the highest? The most dangerous one. -Yeah.

Everett Sloane as Albert Mendoza in The Enforcer (1951)

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

Glenn Ford as Johnny Farrell in Gilda (1946)

49 I don't think it's so much I should keep on spending ten dollars a week on your salary.

Mel Welles as Gravis Mushnick in The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

50 What am I not paying you for, Felix?

Boris Karloff as Baron Boris Von Frankenstein in Mad Monster Party? (1967)