222 Movie Quotes about Work (+ Sound Clips) - page 19

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.

181 You know what they say? All work and no play makes somebody a, uh, somethin' or other.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

182 Your work here is finished, my friend. Go out to the command ship and await my orders. -Yes, my master.

Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine Darth Sidious in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

183 You wouldn't be able to work any place you had to do a job. You just want to play around with your theories and make like some 16th century alchemist.

Robert Lansing as Dr. Scott Nelson in 4D Man (1959)

184 Scott, listen to me. You've got to realize there are some things more important to you than your work.

Quote from 4D Man (1959)

185 OK. The decoys are fed. Now let's get down to work.

Frank Welker as Fred Jones in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

186 Little moments like this, mate. It's what makes the job all worthwhile.

Phil Daniels as Fetcher; Nick And Fetcher in Chicken Run

187 I'm afraid he won't do, Julia. He's a comely boy, but probably just another of the vast army of clock-watchers.

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)

188 I'll get started right away, if not sooner.

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

189 One of my men hasn't showed up. I don't know what's happened to him. He's probably filthy drunk in some dive.

Quote from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

190 Well, it's 130 in the shade, and there ain't any shade up there on that Derrick. -Well, just figure you're a couple of millionaires in your own private steam bath.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre