196 Movie Quotes about Work (Sound Clips) - page 7

Last updated on: July 19, 2025

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

61 What's not fair is me doing manual labor. I'm badly in need of a manicure.

Arsenio Hall as Semmi in Coming to America (1988)

62 If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working? (2)

Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

63 When you were slaves, you sang like birds. Go on. How about a good old nigger work song?

Quote from Blazing Saddles (1974)

64 I worked my whole life... I don't apologize.... to take care of my family and I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all those big shots.

Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)

65 To us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about bills, were dead.

Ray Liotta as Henry Hill in Goodfellas

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

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

67 If you don't get a job, Yubaba will turn you into an animal.

Quote from Spirited Away

68 And if she doesn't work hard, roast her, boil her, do whatever you want.

Quote from Spirited Away

69 I would ask my driver to help you, but he detests physical labor.

Quote from The Silence of the Lambs

70 No, no, no. Don't think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself.

Tim Matheson as Eric "Otter" Stratton in Animal House (1978)