They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
It drives me crazy when guys making $30 million are complaining about playing basketball two days in a row.
No man is worth more than 1,000 pounds a year.
I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, .. When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a $300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.
Anybody who makes an outlandish salary obviously attracts attention.
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it.
We're often portrayed as rich, spoiled athletes who play a game for too much money.
We simply have to reign in the piggish people and money-hungry lawyers who chase every ambulance they see and expect companies and individuals to pay for everything that goes wrong.
Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.
Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of £300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.
Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
We tournament golfers are much overrated. We get paid to much.
I don't see that anybody needs to earn $12 million for three months' work, quite honestly.
We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.
I think filmmakers, in general... There are some awesome, really great filmmakers - but on the whole, filmmakers, actors, I think they are the biggest bunch of whiny, over-paid babies on the planet.
