“I had highfalutin ideas about being a serious actress when I was 16, 17, and first signed at Universal. I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.” IdeasStuffPaidFlattered Author:Piper Laurie
“My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.” RealJobsStuffParentRoomsCareersAmountPaidTennisDishesCleaningReal JobsSmall Amounts Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.” IfsThinkingSometimesKidsMotherChoicesEasyStuffMemoriesPaidHorribleStrawsAnything And Everything Author:Vera Farmiga
“When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.” IfsWellsBookMatterStoriesLastsGuyStuffSimpleTruth IsDrawsPaidDrawingI RealizedComicComic BookHalfwaySensationalUncomplicatedDraftsman Author:John Romita, Sr.
“We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.” StillsWholeStuffInterestSpecialLowsLaborPaidMajorityPopulationSpecial InterestsWorkforceElectorate Author:Ai-jen Poo
“In the years that Ive seen concerts, when Ive paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs Id want to hear. So whether its stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff Ive been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them.” PeopleWantYearsPlayWould BeNightCertainSongStuffPayAmountFairsPaidTiredConcertsEvery Night Author:Toby Keith
“I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.” BelieveStuffTalkingLatePaidToo Late Author:Wilford Brimley
“I made $3,000 opening for the Neville Brothers, and they paid me in cash. That was a bad situation, because I bought ridiculous stuff. I bought a snake bite emergency kit. Then I said to my friends, "Don't even worry about snakes anymore". My friend stepped on a worm, and I said, "Lay down!"” MadeSaidHumorFunnyStuffSituationWorryBrotherMy FriendsPaidLaysRidiculousOpeningBitesCashSnakesWormsEmergenciesBad Situations Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.” PeopleKnowsBookWantedStuffPaidProducersRoyalty Author:Juicy J
“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.” WritingWould BeKidsWantedJobsFunFeltStuffPaidIrresponsible Author:Dave Barry
“The nepotism there is the stuff of legend... It just seems to be a place where people get paid to sit in a building.” PeopleSeemsStuffBuildingPaidLegendsNepotism Author:Graham Linehan
“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.” PeopleIfsGivingNightPassionIndividualStuffHoursFiveMiddleMinesOffersPhotographyGive MePaidReliefWeekendVacationEditingNo MoneyMiddle Of The NightLaptops Author:Nikki Sixx
“I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.” LongStuffAttentionAspectPaid Author:Joan Jett
“I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work. I did my films. I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward, you know. It's so easy to say no to stuff, and then, after a while, it's very hard to go back in.” KnowsNeedsWellsMadeHardAgeFilmYoungChoicesFatherEasyStuffWaitingMonthsLuckySixPaidRight ThingWealthyCowardSix MonthsSo Lucky Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“Whenever I visit Korea she [Kang] buys me lunch and takes me to a gallery. As if all this wasn't enough, she has incredible respect for translation as a creative, artistic practice - she insists that each English version is 'our book', offered to share her fees with me when she found out I wasn't getting paid for translating her publicity stuff, always asks the editor to credit me, and does so herself whenever she's interviewed. Too good to be true.” IfsDoeBookEnoughAsksFoundStuffPracticeCreativeSharePaidIncrediblesCreditVersionsBeing TrueArtisticEditorsTake MeLunchTranslateTranslationsKoreaPublicityGalleryFeesCreative ArtToo Good To Be True Author:Deborah Smith
“There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there's those where it's like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up.” KindShowsMotherGuyWishStuffMillionsTypeInternetPaidSwearSiteShow BusinessUp And DownMartians Author:David Crosby
“All that back-story stuff doesn't help. What you get paid for is to stand toe-to-toe with the other actor and get him to do your will.” HelpingStoriesActorsStuffPaidToes Author:William H. Macy
“Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.” GivingTryingImportantStuffGoalPaidAdvertisingEnginesSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.” PeopleLyingGuyFoundStuffCitiesViolenceHeardMiddlePaidCopSuperhumanSirensPeople LieLarge CitiesSuperhuman Powers Author:William H. Macy
“What you have to remember, when you get to the level of seeing 10,000 people a night, is that they've all paid to have a performance. I need to make sure that they get their money's worth. I don't want to be going on stage and saying, "I'm just going to try some stuff and if it doesn't work, it doesn't matter," because it does matter.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsTryingDoeMatterRememberNightStuffLevelsSeeingStagePerformancesPaidWorking ItRemember When Author:John Bishop
“We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'” LooksKindStuffPayHonestPercentPaidRateBeing HonestShelterExclusionExemption Author:Rick Santorum
“I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.” MenStuffPoorSawsPaidRidiculousHatedPurplePoor ManZeppelinsDeep Purple Author:Angus Young
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” IfsWorldLifeInspirationalMadeDreamEyeStuffWonderThis WorldAdventureTenTravelPaidEnthusiasmFantasticConformityTake MeSecondsFactoriesTime TravelTraveledAdventurousSlothGreat TravelInspiring TravelTravel The WorldTravel AdventureAdventure And TravelSeeing The WorldLife Is An AdventureSolo TravelRoads TraveledLife AdventureAdventure And LifeTravel And TourismNext AdventureChallenging Status QuoWonder Of The WorldRoad LifeWonder Of LifeAdventurous SoulsWorld And LifeMartian ChroniclesFantastic Life Book:Fahrenheit 451 Source: Fahrenheit 451
“Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” IfsWorldYearsMadeSaidDreamBigsEyeHateStuffBrainWonderTenI HatePaidFantasticTouchedSecondsFactoriesGrandfatherStatus QuoSkullsSculptorsRidgesThumbprints Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
“In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.” WantedStuffComedyNiceCarCostPaidVery GoodArchitectureMiserableMaking MoneyDirtyConstructionSwingsHammersNaughtyEarly 20s Author:Adam Carolla
“I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.” IfsKnowsShouldFirstsUsedStuffWalksPayFamePaidNakedUncomfortableNonsenseGossipPaparazzi Author:Robert Pattinson