Pay Me Quotes

#1. Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

Vanna Bonta

#2. I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

Jerry West

#3. I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Keith David

#4. If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

George A. Romero

#5. Good afternoon, here I am in your multimillion-dollar home covered in people dust and smelling vaguely of rot. Please pay me a large sum of money to mold the impressionable mind of your teenager.

Caitlin Doughty

#6. The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Casey Stengel

#7. After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.

Dan DeCarlo

#8. I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Leo Buscaglia

#9. I totally love my job, and I wake up every day basically thinking about how can I do my job better. It never feels like a job. It's hard, and it's exhausting sometimes, but it never feels like - I would do this even if they didn't pay me to do it. That's a pretty amazing feeling.

Brit Marling

#10. The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it ... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

Scott Foley

#11. If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

George Burns

#12. I've written for 'The Times' because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The 'New Statesman' magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.

Heather Brooke

#13. People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

Anatoli Boukreev

#14. I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Shirley Maclaine

#15. 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.

Vinny Guadagnino

#16. I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Sophie Hannah

#17. Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

Bob Uecker

#18. I'll get you and your little dog too?' You say your girl can't pay me back? Believe me when I say that that little gift's just gonna keep right on giving.

Elle Lothlorien

#19. You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

Margot Kidder

#20. Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

Ted Koppel

#21. Perhaps there is nothing in the world I cling to as much as this feeling of adventure; but it comes when it pleases; it is gone so quickly and how empty I am once it has left. Does it, ironically, pay me these short visits in order to show me that I have wasted my life?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#22. When you need to borrow money the Mob seems like a better deal I think. 'You don't pay me back I break both yer legs.' Is that all? You won't take my house or wreck my credit rating? Fine where do I sign. Legs? Fine. You don't even have to sign anything.

Craig Ferguson

#23. Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Quintus Ennius

#24. I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Josh Holloway

#25. I sold my elegant blackness to all those childhood ghosts and now they pay me for it.

Toni Morrison

#26. That's why they pay me the medium-sized bucks.

Karen Rose

#27. Do you pay me? I feel more like a slave." "Please, you're way cheaper than a slave. You provide your own shelter, pay your own bills." Ever

Darynda Jones

#28. Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. They pay me to play my drums and I love it!

Don Meredith

#30. That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.

Tom Petty

#31. 'Cause I can make more money going in and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co. and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it.

Mickey Gilley

#32. I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Edgar Winter

#33. You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

Christopher Meloni

#34. I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#35. I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.

Peter Zumthor

#36. This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

Adam Osborne

#37. I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

Julian Jarrold

#38. Taxi drivers are the ones who pay me the most attention. They seem to be into River Cottage and have a dream of moving to the country, so I have chats with them.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

#39. I would do anything to be around music.
You don't even have to pay me.

Eddie Vedder

#40. I love Paul O'Neill, but you could not pay me enough to work for him again" one official told me. "the man has never encountered an answer he can't turn into another twenty hours of work.

Charles Duhigg

#41. I sold my soul for the second time, cause' the man don't pay me.

Noel Gallagher

#42. I always have a beard between jobs. I just let it grow until they pay me to shave it. People are quite surprised it's ginger. Sometimes they ask me if dye my hair and I always say 'Wow, no!' I'm 'trans-ginger.'

James McAvoy

#43. Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

#44. You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?

Andre Benjamin

#45. You just ignore it! It's not that you don't care anymore, it's that you stop listening and paying attention to it. Because everybody has an opinion. Talk is cheap - it's free! And I say that like, if you don't like the stuff I have to say, pay me no mind - it will cost you nothing.

Donald Faison

#46. If I had all the money in the world, I'd still make movies. But I'd want them to pay me in donuts.

Bruce Campbell

#47. Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zakk Wylde

#48. I shall answer all the questions you are afraid to ask me openly. Do I wish to pay my workers more than their services are worth to me? I do not. Do I wish to sell my product for less than my customers are willing to pay me? I do not. Do I wish to sell it at a loss or give it away? I do not.

Ayn Rand

#49. It crossed my mind that my letters are all about me and not you. I would hope that you pay me the same respect.

Bill Callahan

#50. Credit default swap is basically just an agreement that I have with you, where I sell you insurance on some bond you own. If the bond goes belly up, I promise to pay you. And as long as the bond doesn't go belly up, you pay me for selling you insurance.

Charles Duhigg

#51. My clients don't pay me to feel sorry; they pay me to bring them money. I am tough, but I have a soft side.

Bill Gross

#52. The thing about this job is people go to psychiatrists and pay them $60, $70 an hour to tell them all their screwed-up fantasies, and I write mine down and people pay me. That's just how I roll.

Stephen King

#53. Because if someone owed me several thousand, and then stole from my house, and then I found out he had the money and didn't pay me back, I'd be pretty pissed," Hackett said.

E.C. Diskin

#54. Standing around making ten dollars an hour - that's what they pay me the big bucks for.

Jarod Kintz

#55. I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

David Mamet

#56. I'm going to drink a Coor's Light, cause Bud Light don't pay me nothin'.

Brock Lesnar

#57. When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that's how I survived until another team picked me up.

Terry Crews

#58. I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.

Bill Murray

#59. They say that if you're good at something, never do it for free. But who would pay me to make bad jokes?

Caleb Eversole

#60. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.

Prince

#61. I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.

Robert Pattinson

#62. For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.

Eric Bogosian

#63. The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.

DJ Qualls

#64. Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

Ace Frehley

#65. Well," she said, getting more comfortable, "Here's what I've got so far. I'm going to college and getting a Ph.D. in being awesome. That's a thing, right? Everyone will call me Dr. Kitten and pay me megabucks to diagnose all their problems. Because, of course, I will have all the answers.

Gena Showalter

#66. Hello, Mrs. Tran ... I have David's homework. And if you ever want to see it again, you'll pay me the two million dollars I asked for.

Nenia Campbell

#67. I considered sex work, but then I bent over and looked at my asshole in a mirror. Nobody was going to pay me for access to that thing.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#68. 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

#69. I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

Tom Green

#70. Since no one said anything, I decided to make offense my best ... offense. You didn't call me up here to kill me, did you? Or to pay me back for staking you? Because the last time I saw you upright, you were ... rude.

Faith Hunter

#71. I'm a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don't pay me for normal.

CeeLo Green

#72. I wait for something good or something that will be fun. But they've got to pay me if they want me to work.

Seymour Cassel

#73. The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

Lilly Ledbetter

#74. If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

Berkeley Breathed

#75. I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

Edward Albee

#76. The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that's what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.

Edward G. Robinson

#77. Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.

William Joyce

#78. You're Gideon's friend."
I laughed. Gideon's friend, of course. "Only because his mother pays me to hang out with him."
"Can she pay me?" Elspeth asked.
Iris, moving into the room, rolled her eyes at her sister.

Bethany Frenette

#79. You aristocratic ladies and your gold-plated twats. You always think it's such a honor for me to touch you." He surveyed her with mocking green eyes. "You think you're the first high-kick wench I've ever had? I used to have blue-blooded bitches like you pay me to do this. You've gotten it for free.

Lisa Kleypas

#80. Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

Todd Garlington

#81. I've stopped watching TV news. They couldn't pay me enough money.

Peter Diamandis

#82. I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... . But I don't seem to have a single real friend!

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#83. I hated baseball. I really didn't like baseball at all until someone decided they were going to pay me ... Every year I played in the big leagues, the day the season ended, I called my buddies in West Virginia and said, 'I'll be home tomorrow.'

John Kruk

#84. I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.

Melissa George

#85. I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

Karen Russell

#86. Technically, you don't pay me.
And technically, most of what I do is "think."
I ... rrr. ummm.
And when you get right down to it, I'm better at it than you are.
-Ennesby & Captain Tagon

Howard Tayler

#87. You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind..

Jay-Z

#88. I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.

Roger Maris

#89. I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

#90. I'm so fast I run through a hurricane and not get wet. George Foreman is gonna pay me a dept.

Muhammad Ali

#91. Wylie: "If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"

Stahr: "That's a question of merchandise. I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#92. I met Rosie at the airport. She remained uncomfortable about me purchasing her ticket, so I told her she could pay me back by selecting some Wife Project applicants for me to date.
'Fuck you,' she said.
It seemed we were friends again.

Graeme Simsion

#93. The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Wayne Gretzky

#94. I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

Leopold Stokowski

#95. You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Robin Wright

#96. The greatest compliment that anyone can pay me is that after I say something, they remember it. I'll go over a piece of copy until I've gotten the essence of what the writer had in mind - every nuance.

Casey Kasem

#97. People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.

Alan Cohen

#98. If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

William H. Macy

#99. People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.

Storm Thorgerson

#100. Sometimes I wonder, Balram. I wonder what's the point of living. I really wonder ... '
The point of living? My heart pounded The point of your living is that if you die, who's going to pay me three and a half thousand rupees a month?

Aravind Adiga