There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.
I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.
Everyone who appears in a scene gets paid.
And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
It's only a movie, and, after all, we're all grossly overpaid.
The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
Every actor, male or female, is paid what he or she is worth. There is no inflated sum or underpaying in the industry.
I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
