Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.
You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
If you're good at something, never do it for free.
You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda.
I loved doing commercials when I did commercials. I made a living. I worked in front of a camera. I could do plays for free.
'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.
I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
No one pays me to be nice.
It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do.
I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
Where can I earn money if not from my work? We do some films for money and some for creative satisfaction.
The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.
I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.
One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.
If you look at the parts I've played and the movies I've done... I mean you have to work with the stereotype. The stereotype gets you paid, it gets you in the business. If they're looking for a white housewife, they're going to go for Joan Cusack.
What's worth doing is worth doing for money.
I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.
When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.
You're lucky if you find something you like to do, and it's a miracle if somebody will pay you to do it.
