Top 100 Get Paid For Quotes
#1. [T]he question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Elaine Dundy
#2. I'm very fortunate to get paid for something I love doing.
Billy Magnussen
#3. I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.
Laura Davies
#4. You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.
John Oates
#5. I always wanted to write when I was a kid; it just never occurred to me that you could have a job that didn't involve any actual work ... I felt it would be fun to have a job like that where you could make stuff up and be irresponsible and get paid for it.
Dave Barry
#6. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.
Wilbur Ross
#7. To me, it's not work. When I draw and I write, I find it relaxing. It's not like 9-to-5, where a man goes to a job and he isn't really interested in the job. Luckily, I get paid for doing what I'd do for nothing.
Bob Kane
#8. Part of my job is to try and seduce people. It's what I get paid for, and if people get in the way of me doing my job I can be very difficult.
Robert Powell
#9. Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Octavia Butler
#10. I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.
Matt Groening
#11. In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?
Terry Pratchett
#12. I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid.
Lemar
#13. I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.
Mark Mulder
#14. Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
Irwin Shaw
#15. When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
#16. Basketball was always a game to me. One of the greatest things in life for me was to be able to play what I loved dearly and get paid for it. So it was always a game to me and that's how I perceived everything.
Larry Bird
#17. Sometimes the unexpected does happen. Once, this exquisite woman fell for me. After we made love, she gave me a check for a hundred dollars. I said, "Honey, I don't get paid for sex." She said, "This is hush money."
Ronnie Shakes
#18. We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.
Mark Hoppus
#19. Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Staley
#20. I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did.
Jimmy Carl Black
#21. When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.
Nick Earls
#22. If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
Nathan Myhrvold
#23. The only person I did bondage for was Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. Usually they would shoot four or five models every Saturday. He wouldn't pay for the regular pictures unless we did some bondage. So I did bondage shots to get paid for the other photos.
Bettie Page
#24. People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this...
Bobby Darin
#25. No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.
Bif Naked
#26. No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.
Irwin Shaw
#27. Provide more service than what you get paid for
Les Brown
#28. Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy
Stephen Chbosky
#29. I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.
Dick Stuart
#30. We don't get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we'll wait, we'll wait indefinitely.
Warren Buffett
#31. I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.
Marina Abramovic
#32. What a wonderful thing, to get paid for doing what you love," she says, and he agrees with this.
Emily St. John Mandel
#33. I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
Paddy Considine
#34. If you want to find what God put you here to do, ask yourself three questions. First question: What comes easy to you but harder to other people? The second question is: What would you do for years and never have to get paid for it? Third, ask yourself: How can you be of service?
Farrah Gray
#35. Always do more than what you get paid for. It makes you a valuable person.
Jim Rohn
#36. I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.
Gina Carano
#37. When I was a kid I'd swing imaginary light sabers around, and now I've had the opportunity to get paid for it.
Samuel Witwer
#38. I enjoyed acting and marveled that one could get paid for doing it.
Norman Fell
#39. In her broadcasts, speeches, and newspaper columns, ER would challenge conventional thinking about women and work. "Isn't it a fact that women have always worked, often very hard?" ER asked an audience in 1936. "Did anyone make a fuss about it until they began to get paid for their work?"10
Stephen Drury Smith
#40. Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?
Pearl White
#41. We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time, ... but we get paid for the value, not the time.
Jim Rohn
#42. Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.
Della Reese
#43. I get paid for what most kids get punished for.
Jerry Lewis
#44. If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
Ernst Fischer
#45. The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.
Enrique Iglesias
#46. Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.
Laurence Overmire
#47. I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.
Ronald D. Moore
#49. My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.
Jim Rohn
#50. As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
Dan O'Brien
#51. I wish I could be a model, and then I could have this fantastic body and parade around and get paid for it.
Julie Dreyfus
#52. The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
Kevin Heffernan
#53. Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
Vanna Bonta
#54. I'm a hard worker, and everything with me is, if I work hard, I should get paid for it. Everything with me, I try to symbolize something flashy like jewelry or a car. The rubbing hands is a symbol of hustling, so it goes back to the money.
Birdman
#55. Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.
Meryl Streep
#56. You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.
Tony Robbins
#57. Not everyone gets to do what they love, be good at it, and get paid for it. If you do, you're lucky.
Britt Holewinski
#58. When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.
Marlene Dietrich
#59. We don't get paid for the hour; we get paid for the value we bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
#60. As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.
Dave Barry
#61. We shouldn't even get paid for this game. I'm not trying to take anything away from the Bobcats, they played a heck of a game, but we feel like we are at another level. I felt like we were the expansion team tonight. I'm thoroughly embarrassed.
Jermaine O'Neal
#62. When you're cool for twenty,
you get paid for twenty-one.
Miguel Pinero
#63. In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.
Brian Tracy
#64. I'm still a hacker. I get paid for it now. I never received any monetary gain from the hacking I did before. The main difference in what I do now compared to what I did then is that I now do it with authorization.
Kevin Mitnick
#65. I'm a grafter, I like working, but like for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the film company only paid me for the shooting schedule, which was supposed to last six months. But it lasted 11 months and you don't get paid for extra shooting.
Jason Flemyng
#66. What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free.
Robert W. Bly
#67. My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?
Kathie Lee Gifford
#68. I review books."
"Do you get paid for them?"
I laughed out loud at that. "No, not at all."
Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#70. The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.
Paula Stokes
#71. We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
Warren Buffett
#72. Why do you want to be a lawyer, Miss Everhart?" "I enjoy screwing people over," she said. "I figure I might as well get paid for it.
Whitney Gracia Williams
#73. Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
Andrei Codrescu
#74. I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.
Michael Bloomberg
#76. Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.
Jasper Fforde
#77. People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
Chogyam Trungpa
#78. Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.
Jim Rohn
#79. Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
Campbell Scott
#80. Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Elbert Hubbard
#81. I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
Jason Isaacs
#82. I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
Barbara Windsor
#83. Want to get paid for watching daytime soaps? become a therapist!
Paul MacAlindin
#84. I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.
Josh Lieb
#85. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
Oprah Winfrey
#86. You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year.
Aleksandr Lebed
#87. It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.
Brady Quinn
#88. You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
#89. If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.
Markus Persson
#90. I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
Cameron Diaz
#91. All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.
Edward Rutherfurd
#92. If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
Hunter S. Thompson
#93. I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.
Matt Schulze
#94. I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
Ester Dean
#95. You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?
Dick Gregory
#96. The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Reggie Jackson
#97. I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.
Hilary Mantel
#98. The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it ... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#99. I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.
Bruce Sterling
#100. I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
Norman Mailer
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