Quotes About Payment

The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.

I get paid to act. I've never acted free for anybody and I'd rather be rewarded than awarded.

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

When we exited the textiles business, we paid our bankers and labourers. We must have been the only company to do that.

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, you know, she didn't even get paid to be a scientist. And yet, she was doing Nobel Prize-winning work. How ridiculous is that?

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!

On my show, nobody's being paid more than me. I don't ask what they're being paid - I just make sure they're not getting more than me.

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

I get paid to not laugh.

I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid.

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.