100+ Working Girl Quotes [Funny, Study & Hard Work]

We have compiled a list of the best Working Girl Quotes to read and enjoy. Working Girl sayings are about Funny, Hard work & Study. Famous quotes like Six thousand dollars, I am not steak are very renowned.

You can read all of the things Working Girl is known for in these quotes below:

Working Girl Story

Working Girl is a 1988 romantic comedy-dramatic film directed by Mike Nichols about a young secretary, Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) from Staten Island, who is determined to break the glass ceiling and become a successful businesswoman in the corporate world in Manhattan.

She works as a secretary for an ambitious executive, Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), who is a manipulative and ruthless woman. Although Tess is highly intelligent and talented, her ideas are often disregarded and she experiences discrimination and a lack of advancement in her job.

When Katharine has a skiing accident that leaves her out of the office for a while, Tess takes advantage of the situation to present her ideas to Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford), an executive from another firm.

Funny Quotes

• “Never burn bridges. Today’s junior prick, tomorrow’s senior partner!”

• “You know, Mick, just once I could go for like a sweater or some earrings… something that I could actually wear outside of this apartment?”

Study Quotes

• “I’m flat broke, I’m crazy about a man that I will probably never see again.”

• “Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman – Coco Chanel!”

Hard Work Quotes

• Tess, Tess, Tess, Tess. You don’t get ahead in this world by calling your boss a pimp.”

• “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy — mmm –“

Katherine Parker Quotes

• “Mmm — fine — I took an “antihistamine” before and it makes for a nice little buzz.”

• “Been lookin at your file here. This the third time in six months I had to place you.”

Working Girl 1988 – 10 Best Quotes