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Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every theatre in London.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.

I don't get paid to serve the president. I get paid to serve the public and what I think is in the interest of justice, no matter who the president is.

I knew this girl named Tropicana, She's always juicin'. Producing cash for a sexual task. She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat... You ain't paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

More astronauts have been to the moon than farmers who paid the inheritance tax in 2013.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.

In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.

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

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

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'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

And I love to speak - I am very good at it. And if you love to do something, you're very good at it, and also you are paid well, why would you not do it? Why would you stop?

Pakistan is the sort of place every man should send his mother-in-law, for a month, with all expenses paid.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

However much you paid for a beautiful illusion, you got a bargain.

I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed?

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it.

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

The truth is that the more you get paid, the less freedom you have. They never pay you for nothing.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

When you sell options, you get paid for assuming risk. That can be a profitable business, but it does not mix well with the risks inherent in a leveraged portfolio.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

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

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with financial success.