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Best 'I quit' speeches in movies


"I was too chicken sh!t to live my life so I sold it to you for 300 hundred dollars a week. I should kill you, but leaving you here will be worse than death."

Makes me want to get a lousy job just so I can quit it like this.

The opening song has been my phone's ringtone for years, this has been my favourite movie ever since I was a little kid.

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I love the line about "I have worked here 5 years, the work I have done in that time could have been completed in 4/5 months"

not the exact quote but it's pretty much how I feel about my job.

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That's exactly how I feel about most jobs I've had. Unless you're a doctor or something actually important, there is zero reason to work 40 hours a week. Most people I know spend their days browsing the Internet and do very little actual "work."

Oh god, I just realized Joe didn't even have the Internet to fill his time.

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I had a job like that once and didn't know it. At my next job I was doing things that would have been assigned to 3 people at the previous company.

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It's a wonderful movie, and Tom Hanks did a super job of the "I quit" speech.

Jim Hutton: talented gorgeous hot hunk; adorable as ElleryQueen; SEXIEST ACTOR EVER

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Mine too. Would love to have the ringtone. [email protected]

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