Paid Quotes

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

I'm a lucky guy. I get to sit around every day and indulge in make believe and get paid for it.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.

I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

Real wealth comes to the person who learns that we are paid best for the things we do for nothing.

If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.

Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

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

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

For many of us gratitude to others comes with a sense of debt that can never be fully paid and therefore the things we are thankful for are never really ours.

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

I delivered leaflets for my dad and was paid £5 per thousand, which was slave labour.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

I learned very early in my career that when I don't arrive on set, production will shut down, which means people won't get paid; there's that much responsibility.

Genius is born-not paid

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

I've got what I want, and I've got the luck to express myself and to be paid and to do what I do as a creative person.

Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits and at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

I think we need editorial oversight now more than ever. Anything we can do to help newspapers find new ways of expression that will help them get paid, I am all for.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

You don't get paid for being brave!

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?