The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.
I'm actually very ordinary, except people get to pay their money to come watch me work. The same way that we go to McDonald's.. we don't care about the guy behind the counter, but if he was doing something special, we'd pay our money to go watch him cook that hamburger.
I am an actress - I am paid to verbalize other people's words, not create my own.
If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.
I did all my guitar playing at my house. And then finally, I was throwing hay and stuff working in Stockton and somebody offered - somehow they had heard me singing at the house and said: Hey, I'll hire you for our fraternity party or sorority party. And I said: Well, are they going to pay me? And he said: Yeah, we'll pay you 50 bucks.
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.
I just can't smile at people for money.
I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.
A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid not to be shy.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
I just tell you what I feel. I go out there, you put a quarter on my tongue, twist my ear and I'll spit out some hit for you.
Coming up in bars and clubs, I would play anything that had a $20 bill attached to it. I did 'Like a Virgin' in a bar one time for a hundred bucks.
