
Top 100 You Have To Pay Quotes
#1. Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.
Joanne Woodward
#2. Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Rudyard Kipling
#3. There is a price, which you have to pay. You are 24 hours on the job, if you go out in public.
Robert Pattinson
#4. Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.
Amit Ray
#5. The life of a singer is you have to pay your bills. You have to take a gig.
Judith Hill
#6. Emotional baggage doesn't fit in the overhead compartment. You have to pay extra to check it.
Juliet Blackwell
#7. Every time you have a new tax, or every time you have to pay really an inordinate amount for a regulation, it's really stifling this country and really stifling American business.
John Raese
#8. I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
Edith Piaf
#9. If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.
Drew Curtis
#10. Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
Ian Fleming
#11. With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.
Emma Donoghue
#12. People are paying a premium to see movies in 3-D, and that's a very big deal. It's never been done before that someone says you have to pay more to see 'Spider-Man' than a romantic comedy.
Michael Lynton
#13. As a manager your job is not to teach people talent. Your job is to help them earn the accolade "talented" by matching their talent to the role. To do this well, like all great managers, you have to pay close attention to the subtle but significant differences between roles.
Marcus Buckingham
#14. I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation.
Amy Tan
#15. You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.
Milo Ventimiglia
#16. Just because a jackass brays does not mean you have to pay attention.
Jeanne Phillips
#17. But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie
#18. But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Agatha Christie
#19. If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.
Jeffrey Archer
#20. Marketing is like sex - if you have to pay for it, you're doing something wrong
John Edson
#21. Christ will step in and solve the problem you cannot solve, but you have to pay the price. It does not come without doing that. He is a very kind ruler in the sense that He will always pay the price necessary, but He wants you to do what you should, even if it is painful.
Boyd K. Packer
#22. It's not how many times you fall. And it's not how many times you get back up. It's about how much money you have to pay people to admit that the whole incident didn't even occur to begin with.
Carroll Bryant
#23. God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply.
The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.
Helen Roseveare
#24. I need this conversation. They say silence is golden. Maybe it is, although I'm not sure it's worth that much. It has its price certainly; you have to pay for it.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#25. In this digital age you have to pay to play in the game to succeed if not you will stay in obscurity
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#26. If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.
Suze Orman
#27. I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?
Joshua Ferris
#28. If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
Zora Neale Hurston
#29. To be rich you have to know what it is to be poor. Getting financially literate is part of the price you have to pay to become rich
Robert Kiyosaki
#30. If you take steroids, you have to pay the price. They can kill you; there are no shortcuts. It's like going to bed with a rattlesnake, it's got to get you.
Jack LaLanne
#31. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.
Jessie Pavelka
#32. You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
Karl Lagerfeld
#33. I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.
Mickey Rourke
#34. Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it.
Shelley Berkley
#35. There is no free expression when you have to pay extra to stand on the soap box.
Thor Benson
#36. Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?'
Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing.
Martha Wells
#37. Spend at least 20-30% of your time marketing. You have to pay for this either way. Either you pay a gallery to do this for you , or you put your time and effort into it. Unless people see the great art you're making, they'll never buy it.
Cory Trepanier
#38. Sometimes going to jail is just the price you have to pay for social reform or social change.
Paul Watson
#39. You have to pay your dues. And what's nice, after booking a lot of new people ... I counted the other day. We're in September and we've already booked between 30 or 40 people who've never done the show before.
Scott Aukerman
#40. Love is ... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?
Ma-Roo
#41. With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
Marc Guggenheim
#42. When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.
Robert Reich
#43. Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.
Vince Lombardi
#44. You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
Frank Leahy
#45. In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
Victor Garber
#46. There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Scott Adams
#47. Years ago, you never concerned yourself with pitch counts. Now, with statistics telling you that between this number and that number bad things happen to this particular pitcher, you have to pay attention to it. The bullpen has become a huge part of what happens now.
Joe Torre
#48. Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror.
Karl Marlantes
#49. The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.
Kajol
#50. If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean Koontz
#51. So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.
Lloyd C. Douglas
#52. If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#53. That's the problem with therapists: you have to pay them to say the same dumb shit other people will tell you for free.
Lauren Oliver
#54. Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.
Cher
#55. You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
Zakk Wylde
#56. The people I've respected most in the industry over the years - Paul Newman, for instance. I just loved the way he handled growing old on-screen. It's understanding that you're now basically a character actor. Which is fine, but you have to pay attention to it.
George Clooney
#57. There is no easy button in sales. Prospecting is hard, emotionally draining work, and it is the price you have to pay to earn a high income.
Jeb Blount
#58. He only tells the story once but you see it from about 8 points of view, you have to pay attention the whole time to see whether something seems to be true or is just what somebody says is true.
Helen DeWitt
#59. I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.
Misha Collins
#60. Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.
Philippe Petit
#61. As you have to pay more interest and amortization on what you owe, you're left with less and less money to buy goods and services - unless you borrow even more and go further into debt.
Michael Hudson
#62. To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.
Ethan Hawke
#63. 'Venti caramel macchiato, please,' he said. 'Hold the snobbery.'
The barista laughed and hit buttons on his register. 'You sure? We're having a sale on social mobility. The longer your coffee order takes to place, the more you have to pay.'
'Perfect. Reverse consumerism.'
S.W. Vaughn
#64. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.
Cheryl Strayed
#65. That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.
J.R. Ward
#66. You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you.
Sara Sheridan
#67. I did not want to leave her, but this was it, this is what life is, you have to pay for everything that has happened to you. Whether good or bad you have to pay for it, it would be anything, or something or someone you love.
Shaikh Ashraf
#68. Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
Ralph Merkle
#69. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you pay corporation tax. If you're then taking it out and spending it on yourself, you have to pay more.
Ken Livingstone
#70. You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.
Pat Conroy
#71. If income tax is the price you have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers.
Groucho Marx
#72. You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#73. Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society
Chelsea Manning
#74. You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.
Tim O'Reilly
#75. When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.
Shigeo Shingo
#76. When you're a solo artist and you have a band on tour you have to pay the band some salary. You don't realise the expenses, the way they add up SO quickly. But thank god I'm not a money person. So it doesn't really bug me at all, I mean it's more comical to me ...
Marnie Stern
#77. We're still dealing with the consequences of our actions. The people you drag down with you never go away. You have to pay a penance for your sins.
Angie McKeon
#78. You are free to travel on the road you pave for yourself but you have to pay penalty if you do not go in the right direction.
Amit Abraham
#79. This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.
Zane
#80. You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
Sam Nunn
#81. You have to pay attention to who you are. You need to know your family history as well as you can. It is important for young women to have preventive care. If you catch any women's cancers early it's the difference between life and death. Do you really want to leave your kids without a mother?
Cokie Roberts
#82. My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?
Larry Holmes
#83. You've just mentioned the price that has to be paid ... Pride, freedom ... Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything. Even courage, don't you think? And don't you think a lot of courage is needed to fight God?
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#84. I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio
Martin Sheen
#85. To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.
John Lasseter
#86. If the price you have to pay for a sin is so high that you end up wanting to kill yourself and committing suicide is an even worse sin, then Someone's done his sums wrong. Someone's overcharging.
Nick Hornby
#87. You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the first time I was on stage, I was doing 'West Side Story,' I was 17 and this woman was crying because she liked what I was doing so much.
Sebastian Stan
#88. To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.
Jonathan Price
#89. You have to pay attention to details to have success in the playoffs. You can't take anyone lightly.
Nicklas Lidstrom
#90. The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.
Jose Andres
#91. What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life.
Joseph Brodsky
#92. I firmly believe that the inequity [in society] is enormous. The people have the feeling that you are allowed to do anything if you are rich. But if you're poor, you have to pay. We [Europeans] have to counter this.
Martin Schulz
#93. A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
Ian Frazier
#94. The price you have to pay to be great at something - is repetition.
Andrew Brown
#95. There is no point in delaying crying. Sadness is like having a vicious alligator around. You can ignore it for only so long before it begins devouring things and you have to pay attention.
Lemony Snicket
#96. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".
Paula Scher
#97. It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Edmund Hillary
#98. And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
Lawrence Taylor
#99. I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
Cristela Alonzo
#100. You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.
Jim Balsillie
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