Quotes About Career

Never drew a paycheck outside of baseball.

Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

I still have to work paycheck to paycheck. Being in show business doesn't indicate that you're a 'success,' in my opinion.

Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

I can't make it doing anything else, the amount of money. Obviously, anybody can go to work and make money, but the paycheck I make boxing, I'm not going to make anywhere else.

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply can't overcome their desire to make art, and will live on little income for as long as they have to, before they start to sell their work - or give up and get a paying job.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

I used to do this as a kid. And now they're paying me for it, which is cool.

It's a brilliant job. I'm literally paying my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I don't know what it is about me and this cop thing, but I get a lot of cop offers. Everyone always assumes that I'm someone on the force, but as long as they are paying me, I will play a cop until the day I die.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

The worst career advice is to just do something because it's paying, and there are a lot people out there that will push you to take a job because of money. I am not motivated by money, and I have found a lot of disappointment when I've had to do something because I needed to support myself in that way.

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very different way of looking at the world and experiencing the world. But later in your 30s, when you have children, a career, career obstacles, mortgages, car payments and relationships, you have to negotiate; that's a very different life.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Boxing is what pays my bills.