It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.
I remember in 1990, there were five of us making $3 million a year. When guys passed us, we didn't cry. Why would we cry? You didn't get mad when someone got $6 million. Or $8 million.
The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.
I went to Villarreal for 30% less than I could have earned in Mexico.
I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.
If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
If I were President, … schoolteachers would be paid more than movie stars and basketball players.
An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make.
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
If they're going to pay me like [Mike] Gallego, I'm going to play like Gallego.
Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
My salary for 'Splash' was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for 'Summer Rental.' So, yes, I thought, 'Well, here's a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.'
I don't care about how much other actors get.
Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.
The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?
A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
