David Jason Quotes

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

I grew up watching British comedy on TV, really.

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

Being underpaid once shouldn't condemn you to a lifetime of inequality.

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.

I never joined the TV industry for fame.

It didn't seem fair that no matter how many passes I caught or how many touchdowns I scored, I was considered a 'lowly tight end' and would never be paid anywhere close to a salary as high as the elite wide receivers.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working peoples' need for welfare support, like low pay and high rents, the number of working people relying on benefits increases.

The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important food issue is how to feed the poor or the hardworking middle class.

TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.

The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows.

That's a number that in broadcasting is unimaginable.

It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world.

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

Equal pay is not yet equal. A woman makes $0.77 on a dollar and women of color make $0.67... We feel so passionately about this because we are not only running for office, but we each, in our own way, have lived it. We have seen it. We have understood the pain and the injustice that has come because of race, because of gender. And it's imperative that... we make it very clear that each of us will address these issues.

If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.

I've gotten burnt the last few years on a couple of little independent films where you get paid nothing, you work your ass off, there's no marketing budget except you going on every talk show. But you're seeing it all over. I mean, these disasters at NBC, with the morning show.

Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV].

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what's being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems.

Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.