If you don't work, you shouldn't have an income. If you don't work, you shouldn't get paid.
The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.
I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
An audience is the most dangerous thing in the world, because they paid, and they're looking at you. And they paid! And there's a lot of them! And they cast a cold eye, because they paid. To be on the stage, you have to be very secure.
Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been paid for. I have something to do and I will do that because I'm paying for someone else who has yet to come.
I get paid to not laugh.
Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
It's your money. You paid for it.
The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.
I'm paid to preach not to practice.
I'm paid to make an idiot out of myself. Why do you do it for free?
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
When I do something stupid with money and lose it. . . . I call that Stupid Tax. I have paid so much Stupid Tax that I am expert.
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.
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.