Performance Contract Quotes

I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.

I was asked if I'd audition for a part in a Broadway musical because the director just loved me.

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

When we took on the name The Drifters, we became the new Drifters, and signed a contract to be put on salary, which I think was like a hundred dollars a week, a piece, five hundred dollars for all five of us.

I'm a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects. Solely as an accommodation to some of the band members, I reluctantly agreed to take a temporary hiatus from touring.

We were offered 100 'Sgt. Pepper' shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.

I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.

I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.

I was actually going to work at Tokyo Disney. I thought, 'I'll work in the family!' That was my postgraduate plan. I didn't really have any plans lined up, but I was going to audition for this big band jazz show that was at Tokyo Disney. I think the concert was, like, for a year or something, and I thought, 'Yeah, that's what I'll do!'

I booked my first national tour of a Broadway show right out of college. It was the tap show, '42nd Street.' I had only been tap dancing for three years when I booked that show.

When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

The one thing in my contract that they have backstage for me is bananas. And usually my assistant will go and get me chicken broth.

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

My schedule with WWE is all year unless there's an injury.

You see, in America, it's quite standard for an actor to sign, at the beginning of a series, for five or seven years. The maximum any British agent will allow you to have over an actor is three years.

When you're in WWE, it's a part of that contract signing, that grind. You're on-call 24-7. That's why you become the star that you are.

Once you sign on the dotted line, in terms of a contract with a musical, it's a huge commitment. When you're younger, that's fine; you can take it on, and I still go out, and I still sing 15-20 songs - and I can do that - a night.

I guess because theater's so ephemeral and it's gone. You make this nightly contract with the audience and you redraw that contract for the next night, whereas film and television, it's forever. I suppose it's always about adopting personas, never about being yourself. I think they call it a "shy man's revenge."

It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.