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But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.

I get paid by the year, and I try to earn my money.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

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.

My two boys were the same ages as the kids in the show. In real life or in between the breaks I was raising two kids off camera who were not unlike the two kids who were being paid to be my kids.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

Even though they are paid differently, everyone has to feel appreciated.

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

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.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.