First Paycheck Quotes

#1. I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck

Mamadou Sakho

#2. When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

Brad Pitt

#3. Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.

Jonathan Banks

#4. I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

Jennifer Aniston

#5. When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, "What about what you were going to be?

Kyung-Sook Shin

#6. First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Charles Bukowski

#7. I got my first paycheck as a cast member in the Broadway production of 'HAIR' when I was 16 years old.

Vicki Sue Robinson

#8. I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

Summer Sanders

#9. When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

Peter Lynch

#10. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Jim Leyland

#11. Children are short people. Some you like, some you don't.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Oftentimes, actors are looked at as court jesters. They are not looked at as deep-thinking, smart people who do many other things or have gifts in other areas.

Goldie Hawn

#13. I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.

Alice Englert

#14. When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

Jill Sobule

#15. I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Heather Donahue

#16. I'm still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck ... maybe I'll play a superhero.

Miles Teller

#17. I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

John Grisham

#18. The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.

Samuel Barnett

#19. I can still taste that first beer I bought with my own paycheck.

Marlon Brando

#20. I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

Donald Faison

#21. I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!

Carrie Preston

#22. Don't blow up the world till Sunday," Josh said through a mouthful of doughnut. "I've got to collect my paycheck first." Every

Robert McCammon

#23. I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

Erin O'Connor

#24. In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.

Ann Kirkpatrick

#25. And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so that part of each paycheck goes straight into your savings account.

Alexa Von Tobel