Quotes About Livelihood

I think theater probably remains my favorite, sort of where my soul lives. It takes a lot of discipline, and you have to show up eight shows a week, no matter how you feel physically, mentally, emotionally - there's nobody to cut around that: you've got to tell the story yourself for two hours.

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.

I'm an actor, after all, and I need to be able to pay my rent.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

As long as I can pay rent, that's all I care about.

There's a lot of open mics, a lot of comedy clubs. Whatever money I could make was OK with me. As long as I could pay the rent, eat food, and tell jokes, doing it was good enough for me.

I'm not against a new band doing commercials to pay the rent.

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

I'd stay on tour for the rest of my life if I could. It's awesome.

When one person's livelihood changes, it can impact an entire family, then a whole community.

I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

I especially like the songs Hurry Up and The Curse Of Castle Dragon, and I often include them in my live show.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security.

Paine was understandably concerned at first that the outbreak of fighting would disrupt his new livelihood. He wrote to Franklin, "I thought it very hard to have the country set on fire about my ears almost the moment I got into it." But then he grabbed a torch.

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.

Maybe it's a radical idea, but I believe a job should lift workers out of poverty -- not keep them in it.

But if the little man gets paid even less than he is now, How will he ever afford our vegetables?

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.