I’ve done stuff to pay my dues and that’s what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you’re worthy.

It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure...

It does not matter how sweet you can sing a song of love. You must know how to dance along with it. You can’t dance “salsa dance” on a “reggae song”.

Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without...

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash – your own money.

Money is not the first step to becoming a great achiever. Your ideas determine the cost you will need to pay. So if you have no ideas, you can’t know the amount you will need!

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

One lesson I got from Gandhi, ‘Be the change you want to see,’ haunts me. I just feel like I can’t keep stomping around pointing the finger at BP when I am supporting the oil...

I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that’s the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism – something that’s thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as...

I know a man who doesn’t pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

I don’t want to have a song like ‘My Humps’ and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and...

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.

But if Sharon wants to occupy Gaza, let him come. Israel will pay the price.

I can’t tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.

Isn’t it interesting how much we dislike the days that allow us to enjoy our weekends? The days that pay. If you don’t like Monday’s, you’re not living your authentic life! You’re in the wrong...

Now, all writing – all the arts – are a form of ‘Pay attention to me,’ but there’s also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse...

Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a price to pay. No one would make those arguments today.

I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing… today, I’m motivated to pay the bills.

Sometimes I go to God and say, “God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages...

Work on your ideas with the little money you have. Share your ideas with positive people who will help you carry them through. Never give up on your ideas. Be positively minded and pay the...

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything’s regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

As the sun shines I will make hayTo keep failure at bayFor there remaineth a payFor my honest toil each day.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

Something’s going to happen that’s going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.

There are people who enjoy the life in England but don’t pay a penny in tax, whereas my footballers pay more than half their income in tax.

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service...

Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse...

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Squeeze out the competition—with hugs. I’m giving out FREE hugs while samples last. After that I’ll have to charge an arm and a leg—or maybe just two arms.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

I don’t have ADD, but I only like to pay attention to the things I like to pay attention to, and things like getting a TV and getting the cable working are beyond me, and...

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker...

To provide an additional $50 billion in capital gains and dividend tax breaks over the next 10 years, while permitting many of these taxpayers to shirk their responsibility to pay their fair share of taxes...

I agree and admit that thinking and planning are free. Nobody charges you for thinking and you pay no one to make plans. It’s your decision!

When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she’s gonna pay for it!

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you’re willing to pay the price.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

I don’t believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set...

You can’t trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can’t trust you.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

Your purpose is God’s success. You can’t pay for what God want to be done. It’s God’s business; it’s his farmland, so when he said he’ll provide the rain, don’t doubt it!