If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.
It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.
No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.
If you are the kind of guy who draws in 100 million people to see his film, you've got every right to be paid accordingly, but I qualify as a character actor. I don't put a bum on a seat.
I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?
Talent should always be recognized - no one can keep it; no one owns it.
I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.
Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.
I've never been one to shortchange the importance of actors.
I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
I think girls should be paid more... they're just as talented as us.
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business.
When you hire in business, you don't worry about marquee value.
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
Nothing is easy, but it's definitely great to have a guy who can shoot from anywhere.
In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.
