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Letters of resignation are lame and formal. Why not stick it to the man with some style? If you weren't going to get fired, then you were probably going to quit anyway, so you might as well do it with some pizazz. Leave a memorable mark on your would-be former employer with these 30 great movie lines to use to quit your job.
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"I took the liberty of bullshitting you" —John Belushi as Jake Blues in The Blues Brothers (1980)
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"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." —John Cleese as French Soldier in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
"All I have in this world are my balls and my word, and I don't break them for anybody." —Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface (1983)
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"Snoochie Boochies!" —Jason Mewes as Jay in Mallrats (1995)
"Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen." —Sean Connery as John Patrick Mason in The Rock (1996)
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"You can't respect someone who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work." —Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
"This isn't personal, Kay. This is business." —Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1972)
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"Which reminds me of the time an Englishman, Irishman, Scotsman, a Vicar, a Rabbi and a Priest all go into a bar and the barman looks up and says, 'Is this a joke?'" —Rowan Atkinson as Walter Goodfellow in Keeping Mum (1995)
"If I'm not back in five minutes, just wait longer." —Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
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"A jester unemployed is nobody's fool." —Danny Kaye as Hubert Hawkins in The Court Jester (1955)
"Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face." —Dolly Parton as Truvy Jones in Steel Magnolias (1989)
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"And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit." —Stephen Root as Milton Waddams in Office Space (1999)
"I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubble gum." —Roddy Piper as Nada in They Live (1988)
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"This job would be great if it wasn't for the fucking customers." —Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves in Clerks (1994)
"Yippee-ki-yay, mother fucker." —Bruce Willis as Officer John McClane in Die Hard (1988)
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"I could have killed 'em all, I could kill you. In town you're the law, out here it's me. Don't push it. Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go. Let it go." —Sylvester Stallone as Rambo in Rambo (1982)
"Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have fucked with? That's me." —Clint Eastwood as Walt Kowalski in Gran Torino (2008)
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"I am serious...and don't call me Shirley." —Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack in Airplane (1980)
"Hasta la vista, baby." —Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator in The Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
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"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" —Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry in Dirty Harry (1971)
"Show me the money!" —Cuba Gooding Jr. as Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire (1996)
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"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." —Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." —Strother Martin as The Captain in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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"Go ahead, make my day." —Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan in Sudden Impact
"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody." —Marlon Brando as Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront (1954)
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"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." —Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939)
"Do you like apples? Well, how do you like them apples?" —Matt Damon as Will Hunting in Good Will Hunting (1997)
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"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." —Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing (1987)
"You get nothing! You Lose! Good day sir!" —Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971)
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