I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.
When I was younger I didn’t really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can’t believe people get paid to do it!
I love when I am not typecast. I’ve been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Some people would call me a workaholic. I don’t consider this time: I just love my work so much, so it’s my real hobby, OK? And, yeah, getting some play during working hours for which you are paid is the best job I can recommend for anyone around!
While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.
Because I have always felt privileged. I have been able to do what I love, I have always been treated well, I have always been paid well so that’s why. I feel that I owe something; that I need to return something. It’s always been a great pleasure but nevertheless I do feel this responsibility.
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn’t get paid.
There’s never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.
I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven’t paid that much attention to high school accountability.
You get paid more at McDonald’s than you do under the existing minimum wage.
I’ve had a career that is kind of under the radar, but it sure is varied, and I’ve been so blessed to be able to get paid to do something I love to do.
I’m glad that I’m being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
I wasn’t a financial pro, and I paid the price.
When I was a kid I’d swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I’ve had the opportunity to get paid for it.
There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.
Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you’re on to something else.
TV industry pays us as much as the leading guy or probably more. All our shows are women-oriented, and all the TV actresses are getting paid well. There is absolutely no discrimination over here.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
I’ve only half-admitted I’m a professional. I know I am, I’ve paid my dues, but one of the things I could do better when I’m acting is to really be rigorous and to think I know how to do it. To use my brain.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It’s always been a great trip.
If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.
Teachers need to be paid like professionals.
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.
I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn’t care if I showed up because I’d already paid. So I decided, ‘I’m going to turn this around.’ And I did: I got straight A’s and was named ‘outstanding senior.’
There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
For me, comedy is constantly presented as this fake casualness, like a guy just walked on stage going, ‘This crazy thing happened to me the other day.’ And he’s in front of 3000 people, and he’s acting like an everyman, and he’s getting paid so much money.
Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things.
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
It’s a privilege to do what I do for a living – to take people out of their miserable day, or to educate somebody, or make somebody laugh, or fall in love with an idea. How good is that? And I get paid to do it!
I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.
Why do women get paid less money? It doesn’t make any sense.
My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.
For me… you know, the most I’ve paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can’t just go into Supercuts.
All I ever thought was, ‘I’m going to do this as long as I can, and if I can’t get paid at it, I’ll be a bum doing it.’ And so, here I am.
I never really got paid for ‘Tell It Like Is,’ but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn’t be here now. That’s okay. I’m here. And I’m still singing the song.
A female newcomer and a male newcomer will get paid different amounts of money. You’re a newcomer, nobody knows who you are, man or woman doesn’t matter. But you’re going to get paid different money.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
I did ‘Tumbleweeds’ for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
I don’t get paid like a person that everyone knows, but I get paid so much more in so many ways.
I don’t like to cry in public, unless I’m getting paid for it.
I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth. A pile of bills and statements – whether paid or not – is a sign that someone is clueless about what’s coming in and going out. When you consciously open, read, and file away your bills and statements, you are connecting with your money and taking control of your life.
There’s no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that’s who paid the best.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.
The best antidote to poverty remains simple – a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
We want to say to everyone: New Jersey’s a place where gender does not play a role in how much you get paid.
Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It’s an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you’re being paid to do it. It’s borderline madness.
Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.
For me to become the highest paid player in the franchise, it was something I didn’t anticipate. But I’m glad. I like playing for Cincinnati.
