You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
I value a buck, and when they're giving you $300,000 to lay down and look cute and pretty for a commercial in Korea, you gotta just go, 'Holy crap, this is unbelievable.'
This job is like stealing. I travel first class in a nice plane. I have a driver waiting for me. I go in a room and have room service. I have a meeting. Then I go to the best game of the weekend and talk football - and they pay me.
It was very enticing to become a yuppie, but I didn't want to do that.
When I was playing James Bond, it was the best job in the world. I mean, it was hard work, all that filming and travelling and tedium on set, but I earned a lot of money, and it was not a taxing job. I just had to say, 'Shaken, not stirred.'
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
Some guys get into the NBA, get the big money, and are satisfied with themselves.
There are career waiters in Los Angeles, and they're making over $100,000 a year.
Well, I have one of the best jobs in the world.
I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
I can't say modeling is a hard job. And it brings the money home.
I'm not a millionaire, a billionaire, a CEO, or a movie star.
I get to do what I want. And I get paid millions of dollars to do it.
One healthy thing I'd like for players to know, whether they're active or former, is you likely can't replicate the thrill of playing before 100,000 people and big hits and making that much money. We can get ourselves into trouble trying to.
We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.
It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I've been offered.
