Celebrity Pay Quotes

If I were President, … schoolteachers would be paid more than movie stars and basketball players.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.

In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.

People love talking about how much an actor makes. A lot of headline space is dedicated to this.

Since becoming a BBC breakfast presenter I have been paid four-figure sums for doing hour-long speeches for associations and at awards dinners. That has been an eye-opener. I am surprised by how much people are willing to pay TV celebrities to do that kind of stuff.

Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

On a smash TV series, you make much more money than you ever can in a movie. Do you know how much more Bill Cosby will make than Spielberg? The money for successful television is unbelievable.

Whenever a critic mentions the salary of an actor, I'm thinking, He's not talking about the movie.

The entertainment business is and always has been about money, and it's about, 'Does that person merit that salary?' The fact is that that the business, in my view, has been somewhat bankrupt for years - only the new media made it viable.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

People see you on television, and they think you make the same amount of money that Clint Eastwood does. But this is PBS. All these shows are done for free.