222 Movie Quotes about Work (+ Sound Clips) - page 9

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.

81 Yes, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

82 Did you want something? -No. -Well then, back to work. Remember, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

83 Nah, I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire!

Charles Bronson as Bernardo O'Reilly in The Magnificent Seven (1960)

84 There's one big difference between you and me: I do this job because I've been trained to do it. You do it because you love it.

Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley in Patton (1970)

85 Every time! Every time! Send a man to do a woman's job and that's what you get.

Faye Dunaway as Selena in Supergirl (1984)

86 Our work is finished here. Hers has just begun.

Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

87 Do you know what I have to show for my life's work? Pills. Green pills to be taken after yellow pills. Purple pills to be taken before green pills.

Vincent Price as Burnbridge Waters in Champagne for Caesar

88 Work. Finish. Then sleep.

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’S Monster in Bride of Frankenstein

89 What's this, River Rats? Munching cheese while there's work to be done?

Frank Gorshin as The Riddler in Batman (1966)

90 She's dead. And the living have work to do.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Lord Kalidor in Red Sonja