Quotes About Income

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.

One by one, all of my college buddies had taken these nothing-special entry-level jobs, pushing papers for $18,000 or $21,000 a year (and hating the work besides), and I'd turn up my nose and tell them I wasn't about to get out of bed for anything less than $50,000. That was my line, my attitude.

If I had to live on record sales, I'd be pushing up the daisies.

The basic idea of retirement income is, to me, to get a check, two checks every month, one from your fixed income and one from equity account. And you want them to grow over time.

I just go to work, come home. And my wife lets me throw my clothes on the floor, and she doesn't say anything, so I must be making some money.

I lay 11-10 because I know the bookie needs that 5 percent that I give him. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to make a living and go down to Florida with his family.

Every football player, or every person who works, wants to earn money to help their families.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

I'm a professional footballer, and I get paid for doing my job.

A footballer in three weeks earns what a dancer makes in a year.

I'm a cash flow guy. If it doesn't make me money today, forget about it.

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

I just don't think of myself as a star. This is what I do for a living; I'm fortunate that I make ends meet.

But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.

In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.

Acting's a job. I act to fill the fridge.

It's nice to have awards from time to time. There was a time when I had to make a living from my writing, and it wasn't always easy. I value awards a lot - and more so if there is a little cash with them!

More than films, endorsements and dance shows and attending functions or appearing in any shows brings more money.

My publishers, two Catalan brothers with an inherited income, took me out to lunch to inform me that the first print run would be only five hundred copies. Five hundred readers? I accept! And the lunch was delicious.

My salary swings an unbelievable amount. When I had Holly, I took seven months off, so my salary was very low. It fluctuates wildly. No one pays you for the period you spend writing. I am certainly not rich.