28 Movie Quotes about Work Life Balance (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: July 19, 2025

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

1 Dag nabbit! The trouble with all this fun and games stuff is that it takes too long. I got things to do. Hmm!

Gopher in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 You understand? You get a job, you become the job.

Peter Boyle as Wizard in Taxi Driver (1976)

3 You never hear somebody say, 'With the time I've saved by using my word processor, I'm gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.' You don't hear that.

Ethan Hawke as Jesse in Before Sunrise

4 I think people place too much emphasis on their careers. Gosh, I wish we could all live in the mountains. At high altitudes. That's where I see myself in five years. How about you?

Bill Murray as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day

5 Today, we rest. All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.

Sessue Hayakawa as Colonel Saito in The Bridge on the River Kwai

6 Well, I got nothing against honest manual labor. It's just that I'd like to see if I could make a living sitting down, like you're doing over there.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky II

7 Isn't this fun? But we're supposed to be having fun. It's on the schedule. It's on... the schedule.

Rabbit in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

8 Should we play? -Or work? -Mm. Yes. -Yes? By dinghy, that makes sense to me. -Right. We'll do both.

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

9 After all the work I've done, I deserve a vacation. Nothing too long, of course. Just a day visiting my relations.