Salary quotes

“Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.”
Marlon Brando

“I am paid not to think.”
Clark Gable

“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
John Barrymore

“There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.”
Joe Pantoliano

“I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.”
Celeste Holm

“- Katherine Newbury: I can’t give you a raise, Gabe. It’s like giving a raise to a drug addict.
- Gabe Eichler: What?
- Katherine Newbury: Well, your situations are virtually identical. A drug addict makes certain decisions outside of work for their sense of self and comfort, and then the addiction demands more time, more energy, more money,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Emma Thompson - Katherine Newbury
Lucas Caleb Rooney - Gabe Eichler

“If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I am certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.”
Liz Taylor

“I've always lived above my income. When I was earning $100 a week, I spent $200... always borrowing against my future earnings. That's why I'm not the only one who wants me to be a success.”
Laurence Harvey

“The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.”
Leslie Caron On Liz Taylor

“I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.”
Leslie Caron

“- Paul Biegler: You're fired.
- Maida Rutledge: You can't fire me until you pay me.”
James Stewart - Paul Biegler
Eve Arden - Maida Rutledge

“- Annie: A guy who rents a house this big must be making up for something pretty small, I'd say.
- Max: No no, I've seen his dick, it's pretty great.
- Annie: Well, I tried.”
Rachel McAdams - Annie
Jason Bateman - Max

“I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.”
Bette Davis - Margo Channing

“If you can figure out how to get paid to do something you love, that's the dream.”
Jon Bernthal

“- Captain York: I'm Captain Yorke, sir. I bid you welcome, General Thursday.
- Lt. Col. Owen Thursday: I'm not a general, Captain. A man is what he's paid for. I'm paid in the rank of Lt. Colonel.
- Captain York: I'd remembered you as a general from the war, sir.”
John Wayne - Capt. Kirby York
Henry Fonda - Lt. Col. Owen Thursday

“I can't afford to work for only ten thousand dollars a week.”

Mary Pickford

“Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games?”
David Niven

“When I see the amount of money flung into that cauldron called Hollywood, I feel not one ounce of guilt about what I get.”
Shirley MacLaine

“Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.”
Cary Grant

“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

“I have no bad feelings about actors getting $20 million a picture or more. They won't give you a dime in this town unless you can make them a dollar. No producer is going to give anybody $20 million if he doesn't think he's going to make much more.”
Rod Steiger

“Why the hell don't they hire some of the old ones? All those bastards at the studios are trying to do is find fifty-dollar-a-week Gables, Coopers, and Bogarts.”

Humphrey Bogart

“Hollywood don't always pay a lot of money. Because we're English they think we're cheap!”
Ray Winstone

“I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.”
Harry Carey Jr.

“I don't think of acting in terms of making a living.”
Michael Murphy