21 Movie Quotes about Wages (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Jun 2, 2025

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

1 You wanna pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Lou Hirsch as Baby Herman in Roger Rabbit Shorts

2 Ooh. What do you think he makes? -Not enough.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

3 Working for minimum wage was never my style. I like big dollars.

Kaydee Caine Lawson in Menace II Society

4 Maid! How can you afford a maid on what I'm over-payin' you?

Mel Blanc as Cosmo Spacely in The Jetsons

5 You men enlisted in this regiment on the understanding that you would be paid the regular Army wage of $13 a month. This morning I have been notified that since you are a coloured regiment you will be paid $10 a month.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

6 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

7 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

8 Wages? Do you wanna be wage slaves? Answer me that. No. No, of course not. Well, what makes wage slaves? Wages. I want you to be free.

Groucho Marx as Mr. Hammer in The Cocoanuts (1929)

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

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

10 I pay a full day's wages, and expect a full day's work.

John Wayne as Wil Andersen in The Cowboys (1972)

21 Movie Quotes about Wages (+ Sound Clips)

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