Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
Return to specie payment … at the earliest period compatible with due regard to all interests concerned.
The sentence was actually drafted by Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase.
As long as somebody 'CTC,' at the end of the day I'm with them. For all you that don't know what CTC means, that's 'Cut The Check.'
The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things." "Doesn't God put a price on things?" "No. One of his attributes is magnanimity. But the Devil is a setter of prices, and a usurer, as well. You buy from him at an agreed price, but the payments are all on time, and the interest is charged on the whole of the principal, right up to the last payment, however much of the principal you think you have paid off in the meantime.
When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'
I make 50 cents for showing up... and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.
I definitely learned stuff like advancing a show, what percentage I should be paid, what's going be in a contract I'm going sign.
I always ask two questions when we are closing in on a deal: What currency are we dealing in and how many people are expecting to get paid as part of this transfer?
... for some of us life always comes C.O.D.
When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence.
I don't take advances for my books.
I would never put a movie on YouTube unless the funding was right, or unless YouTube paid for it or something.
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher.
There are a lot of examples where people aren't getting the right information. We could do a lot more with credit card bills so people properly understand that if you pay off the minimum it could take you 41 years to pay off is that right.
You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].
If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.
Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
I never talk about a job before the contract is signed and I've shot the first three days.
Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses.
As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.