Peter Scolari Quotes

Actors make less than you think.

The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

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

The first thing the Chinese ask you when they meet you is: 'How much money do you make?' It's a legitimate question to ask in China.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, that's the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

You've got to ask for more money.

I'm not retiring, because when you retire, you're still getting paid. I'm not getting paid, so I'm not retiring.

Why don't I earn very much? I don't know; you'd have to ask my agent. Maybe I'm just not very bright!

I became a hero after V Shantaram cast me in 'Geet Gaya Pattharon Ne.' He paid me a monthly salary of 100 rupees!

I made '4,000 every month from 'Khandaan.'

Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.

I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

I remember my first professional paycheck. I couldn't keep it as a memento because I needed the money, but I have kept some of the residuals that I get. I got one the other day that was for two cents. I might put that in a frame.

I'd been a lost young actress searching for everything: my big break, a way to save some money, friends I could connect with and - more than anything - purpose in my life.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.