100 Movie Quotes about Salary (+ Sound Clips) - page 6

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.

51 You can't have happy marriages on that kind of dough.

Virginia Mayo as Marie Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

52 Three, someone who will work for peanuts. Four, not too bright. And, five, someone who can push a button.

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in Jetsons: The Movie (1990)

53 Hey, fellas! Look what I found in my pocket! Look! A year's salary right here. You know what I call them? Fun coupons! See that! They're fun coupons!

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street

54 And he gave you a 5 dollar raise. Yeah. Isn't that swell?

Barbara Stanwyck; Gary Cooper in Meet John Doe (1941)

55 Young man, 27-28, married, making, say, 40 a week. 45! -45. Out of which, after supporting your mother and paying your bills, you're able to keep, say, 10, if you skimp.

Lionel Barrymore in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

56 Here you are. Here. This is for you. You did a good job for me. Worth 500 dollars.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

57 Damn. Before they started laying people off, they was paying folks $15 dollars an hour at that place. -Oh, man, that's good money.

Jada Pinkett as Stony in Set It Off (1996)

58 My salary is X, my expenses are Y. As long as my family is provided for, I do not care where the difference comes from.

Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills in Taken (2008)

59 There was no salary. Not even a reasonable promise of a job.

Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

60 Wow. This is quite a place. They must be paying you a lot more than they're paying me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Detective John Kimble in Kindergarten Cop