Salary Quotes

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

I don't talk about my salary.