I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
Will Smith

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.
Adam Smith

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
Golda Meir

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.
Edward de Bono

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
Abigail Adams

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.
Michael Phelps

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.
Kanye West

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
Jim Cramer

For hostile word let hostile word be paid.
Aeschylus

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.
Simon Travaglia

There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid.
Herman Melville

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
Baltasar Gracian

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
Patton Oswalt