Nia Sharma Quotes

Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

There's no art where there's no fee.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.

They're making so few movies that you really just have to make it. It's going to be the only way you end up getting work. I don't believe anyone's going to really go out on a limb and just throw millions of dollars on someone that's not been proven. They're going to have to show somebody something at some point.

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

I don't have a philosophy for choosing roles. Sometimes, it's just, 'This might be interesting; that might be fun to do.' There might be interesting actors or directors in the project, even if the part is not important. And then sometimes, you need the money.

On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.

I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.

I don't have to work just to work anymore. More interesting parts come my way, so I can afford to say, 'I don't want to make that.'

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I will never do something without having a feeling of knowing how to play it. I've been in projects that I felt terrible about afterwards, but I've always had something that sparked me while I was doing it.

I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

The great thing about being on a television show is that it usually provides you with fairly steady income so you can go and do things.

I've always freelanced as an actor, and you always have to worry about the next paycheck. When I booked 'True Blood,' I promised myself I would take advantage of the fact that for the first time in my career, I could afford to turn down big money to go and do small, character-driven indies.

I've been charging what I deserve. I believe I am worth every penny of it, and if filmmakers think so, too, they will pay me.

Price doesn't make deals, and salary doesn't control your career.