Dick Schaap Quotes

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

If you're getting $80 a show, then you're not getting paid.

I tell stories so only the independents do that and they don't pay you that much. I'd rather do TV or an HBO movie.

I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

I think theater is the strongest place to find what's missing in entertainment. Unfortunately, it pays the least.

People assume NFL cheerleaders are within some vague sniffing distance of the good life, but a Ben-Gal is paid seventy-five bucks per game. That is correct: seventy-five bucks for each of ten home games. The grand cash total per season does not keep most of them flush in hair spray, let alone gas money to and from practice.

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.

We get paid way less than we deserve. We deliver shows and deserve to get paid more. We practically pay to do this. You deserve to get better paid if you sell the fight.

For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its quick growing grass and it grows as he mows it the faster he mows it the faster he grows it. And all that his stingy old uncle will pay for his shoving mower around the hay is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day. And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!

I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boos was trying to say? "Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law."

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

I've always worked in cinemas or cafes to make money because it turns out freelance journalism is quite hard to get into.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

My favourite writers are columnists.

I never saw the light of day at Bouley. I remember I would bring home a roll of toilet paper a week because we got paid so little, if at all.

If you're making $10 an hour and you're doing your job and you're doing it well and your check is consistently $8.75 an hour, who wouldn't stand up for themselves?

I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.

I've never asked for more money, not one time in my career. I fought Demian Maia for $30,000. The No. 2 guy in the world, I was fighting for $30,000. So I don't care about money.

Being a 'Blue Peter' presenter is not well paid.

In our economic structure, the people who work the hardest oftentimes make the least. I know migrant farm workers who do back-breaking labor every day, or Uber drivers and Lyft drivers who drive 10 to 12 hours a day in traffic. You can't be lazy doing that kind of work.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.