Steve Martin Quotes

Honest work deserves honest pay.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

Guys want to be compensated fairly.

Honest work is much better than a mansion.

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 believe in the honest craft of workmen.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

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What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

You get paid what you deserve, according to the money that your movie generates. I get much more than a lot of male directors and I also get less than some. But I get paid what I deserve and what I ask for.

Just pay my what I'm worth. I'm a fair guy, I'm not asking more than what I'm worth.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

I think if you contribute to a job, and it's repeated and repeated, and sold over the world, and the producers are making millions, you should benefit from it.

I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman.

The amount of work we have to do to get to that Octagon, we should be getting paid what we're worth.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.