When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
I've been drawing since I was a little kid, but it's not something I love to do every day. If there's one thing I love to do every day, it'd probably be acting. I can act every day. I'd happily do it, you don't have to pay me. But that's one thing I'd love to do and get paid for.
I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"
Hard work has paid off a whole lot.
There is no revival possible in any fellowship without a price being paid.
I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
Once you add value, you get paid.
A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid.
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.
I get paid to make out with the hunks!
Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.
We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.
My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.
