Brian Dennehy Quotes

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!

It seems to be that more and more people are asking you to work for nothing on films, and that's unfortunate because you have to make a living. On the other hand, I don't do a better job because I get paid a lot of money. I'm never like, 'I'm not going to work as hard because I'm not getting paid as much.'

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

Every time we look at them, they want more money. Like pigs … Here we’re slaving, and we’re starving, and the god-damned workers don’t give a shit about anything.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.

U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated ...

We have required under law for years that men and women get paid equal money for equal work. But we've faced challenges enforcing that law. There is still a large wage gap, and there are numerous instances of women holding jobs where they are not compensated fairly.