34 Movie Quotes about Work Life Balance (+ Sound Clips) - page 2

Updated: May 21, 2026

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

11 I got a motto: Like your work, love your wife.

John Candy as Del Griffith in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

12 Lazy, I want to be lazy. I long to be out in the sun with no work to be done.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)

13 Well do that at our leisure, when our more important work is done.

Frank Welker as Megatron in The Transformers (1984)

14 What have you been doing all day? -Shopping. -Some career, huh? Six days a week, she shops. On the seventh, she rests. All tired out.

Lee Marvin as Vince Stone in The Big Heat (1953)

15 What time is it? -7:45. Yeah, I know. It's too early to be so busy.

Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

16 I want to know how I stand, where I fit into the picture, what it's all going to mean to me. I can't find that out sitting behind some desk in an office, so as soon as I get enough money together, I'm gonna knock off for a while.

Cary Grant as Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)

17 Are all your days like this? -No, because I'm usually sleeping.

Christine Cavanaugh as Gosalyn Mallard; Jim Cummings as Darkwing Duck in Darkwing Duck (1991)

18 When the boss plays, it's culture. -Sure, culture.

Quote from An American Tail

19 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

20 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