24 Movie Quotes about Unemployment (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jul 17, 2025

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

1 Why don't you get a job? If you're so hungry, why don't you get a job?

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

2 And how does one celebrate Christmas on the unemployment line?

Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol

3 Well, the birds, then. -What birds? -Any birds. -Why? -Well, have they got jobs? -Who? -The birds.

Graham Chapman in Monty Python's Life of Brian

4 I want you to give me a job, please!

Daveigh Chase as Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away

5 If you don't get a job, Yubaba will turn you into an animal.

Daveigh Chase as Chihiro Ogino in Spirited Away

6 The age of automation and unemployment. The rise of the machine and the fall of man. The end of the human era.

Dave Thomas as Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew (1983)

7 Just the thought of having to go to the state unemployment office, to stand in line with scumbags!

Tom Smykowski in Office Space

8 I lied. All that stuff I said about being a crackhead just helps me sell magazines. I'm actually an unemployed software engineer.

Ron Livingston as Peter Gibbons in Office Space

9 Here you can only gain respect by killing other men. So nobody works anymore.

Clint Eastwood as The Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars

10 Hi. I don't know what it is about me and employment, we start out together, but sooner or later we reach the fork in the road. Usually sooner.

Frank Sinatra as Rocky Fortune in Rocky Fortune