Salary Quotes

I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

When I look at our roster, I'm sure all of you have printed that I'm coming up on 35, and given my situation and my salary structure and all that, yeah, I have to wonder if this team is going to make moves and they haven't.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.

If you were my agent and I was making $10 million a movie and made four movies a year, that means you have a salary of $4 million.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

The salary of a member of Congress ends the day that he of she leaves office.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

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

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

I don't talk about my salary.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'