222 Movie Quotes about Work (+ Sound Clips) - page 14

Updated: Apr 30, 2026

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

131 First we get some sack time. Then we start all over again.

John Wayne as Col. Mike Kirby in The Green Berets (1968)

132 But mankind won't be destroyed. The fact that you and I are working here today... is evidence of that.

Quote from The Last Man on Earth (1964)

133 Standard procedure is to do what the hell they tell you to do.

Tom Skerritt as Dallas in Alien (1979)

134 His monkey-_ ain't worked a hard day in his life. That's why he don't know how to act with all of that money.

Quote from Paid in Full (2002)

135 If I was working, I wouldn't need 200 dollars. Exactly.

Ice Cube as Craig Jones in Friday (1995)

136 What are you looking at? Back to work!

Geoffrey Rush as Captain Hector Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl

137 All he has to do is know what he wants and work hard for it. And if he wants it bad enough, he'll get it.

Rawle D. Lewis as Junior Bevil in Cool Runnings

138 I want you to get your _ up today, go out and look for a job. The word today is job. J-O-B.

John Witherspoon as Willie Jones in Friday (1995)

139 How the _ else would you do this job? Cocaine and hookers, my friend.

Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna in The Wolf of Wall Street

140 I've worked all my life for this. You can't talk me into giving up, no matter what you say.

Quote from Shaolin vs. Lama (1983)