Ian Mckellen Quotes

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

As I'm sure everyone would agree, carers who do the difficult job of looking after the elderly and vulnerable deserve to be paid a decent wage that they can actually live on.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

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We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

If our American women are going to work to put food on the table and pay for the mortgage, then we better make sure that they get put into jobs that pay well and that pay their worth. That's why I'm such a huge advocate about computing jobs, because those are the jobs.

I think all of us want to work and get paid what we are worth.

On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women, like demanding equal pay for equal work, pushing to raise our minimum wage, and promoting the idea of paid family leave.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

Of course I've always wanted to make a decent pay like everybody else.

The theatre world is so starved of funds, and that's unfortunately reflected in the pay.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

Younger writers and smaller writers need to live and get by. They need to be paid. It has to be fair.

Guys want to be compensated fairly.

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

We do not just strive for a society in which every person has the opportunity to reach their full potential (all parties lay claim to that); we want to build a society in which whatever talents people have, they are rewarded with a comfortable standard of living when they apply them.