“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.” FirstsShowsSchoolJobsRolesTvsDramaPaidTv Shows Author:Lily James
“The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.” PeopleFeelsI CanLastsMillionsForeverTvsLuckyNewsPaidBlessedStructureFortuneInsaneAccurateImmenseRepresentationGood Fortune Author:Tom Hanks
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.” ActorsSocialMillionsFiveConditionsTvsMessagesPaidDollarsNineLikesMillion Dollars Author:David Brinkley
“It isn't called TV money for nothing. There was a time where I paid my rent by doing theater for years, and I was able to buy groceries and pay my electric bill. I considered myself to be making a living as an actor. This kind of money that we make is a whole other level, of course. But it really is simply the cherry on top of a job and a role that I adore.” YearsKindWholeAbleJobsCoursesActorsLevelsPayRolesTvsPaidTheaterBillsElectricAdoreGroceriesCherriesMaking A Living Author:Jim Parsons
“Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie, which is for your heart and you don't get paid up front and probably don't make any money on it, but it hopefully goes to Sundance and is more of an art movie, and then you do TV.” HeartArtChoicesThreeFrontsTvsDirectorsPaidIndependentStudiosHopefullyPaychecksSundance Author:Jason Blum
“The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.” ThinkingWantHelpingCertainChoicesTvsDirectorsPaidNot SureMuscles Author:Robert Schwentke
“I honestly think if I had made a ton of money as an actor, I wouldn't have done anything else. (Hah!) Then I turned to writing plays. If that paid me well, I don't know if I would have turned to TV. Or coaching. I've now devised a combination of things partly because I'm having fun, and partly because I'm piecing together a way to make a living.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWritingWellsMadeDonePlayTogetherActorsFunTvsPaidHonestlyCombinationHaving FunCoaching Author:Steven C. Harper
“At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.” Has BeensIdeasHomeFamilyLearningImpossibleTvsPaidTablesPlanningEveningMealsSeatsPrimeVolumeDiningDividendsDining Table Book:Making Money Made Simple Source: Making Money Made Simple
“After college, I shot a pilot for a show on Lifetime, which was basically House of Style for a TV lover. I think I got paid $1,500, and I was like, "Mom, I'm moving out! I made it!" I did two seasons of that, but I felt like a talking head and wanted to do more.” ThinkingMadeTwoShowsWantedMovingHouseFeltTalkingStyleCollegeTvsMomLoversShotsSeasonsPaidLifetimeMade ItPilotsMoving OutTalking Heads Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.” TwoFactsShowsRealityGuySportsPartyAttentionTvsMonthsTrumpPoliticianRepublicanPaidElectionClintonWinnerDepressingTv ShowsRepublican PartyComebackTwo MonthsNominationsReality TvNo Winners Author:Bill Burr
“Failing to support children one has fathered is wrong. We must be unequivocal about this. It doesnt help matters when prime-time TV has Murphy Brown, a character who supposedly epitomizes todays intelligent, highly paid professional woman, mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone and calling it just another lifestyle choice.” ChildrenMatterCharacterHelpingTodayChoicesFatherSupportFailingTvsCallingImportancePaidIntelligentLifestyleBrownPrimeMurphyUnequivocalPrime TimeLifestyle ChoicesMurphy Brown Author:Dan Quayle