On a TV show, for instance, dancers have to be paid for a week and a half rehearsal time. So unless they're vital to a production, they're just not used.
The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?
When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
I expect to get paid if I do something.
There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.
You can't touch the strippers. Why are you paying to not touch someone? That is weird. How do you win in that situation? That is like walking into a deli, starving, and being like, 'Here's $300 - can I stare at the roast beef? Better yet, I'll sit down in this chair and you can mash it around my mouth and balls.
Whores are the most honest girls. They present the bill right away.
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
If someone is going to profit from your work, they need to earn it.
