The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.
I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
When our eyes are set on eternity, the news that someone has come to know the Savior means a great deal more than the news of a salary raise or the prospect of getting the latest high-tech gadget.
Without new money, salaries wo n't be paid, the health system will stop functioning, the power network and public transport will break down, and they wo n't be able to import vital goods because nobody can pay.
Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.
Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.
It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.
I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.
Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.
How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards.
After several years in the league, when a player becomes a vested veteran in the NFL, they play under a different set of rules. For instance, if you cut a vested veteran mid-season and they don't get picked up by another team, you owe them the remainder of their salary.
I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was $1. 50 per week.
Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.