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It`s only a movie, and, after all, we`re all grossly overpaid.

- Alfred Hitchcock

When I figured out that to have money you had to work, I knew I couldn`t hack a regular job. So I thought acting would be good, because basically you made your own hours, were ridiculously overpaid and got the girls. Don`t laugh! That was the truth! - On how he first came about considered acting as a career.

- Val Kilmer

(on acting) This isn`t work. It`s fun. The whole thing is fun. I hear actors say, "I have to go to work tomorrow". Nonsense. Work is eight hours in a coal mine or a government office. Getting up in the morning and putting on a funny mustache, and dressing up and showing off in front of the grown-ups, that`s play, and for which we`re beautifully overpaid. I`ve always felt that way. After all, how many people in the world are doing things that they like to do?.

- David Niven

Can you imagine being wonderfully overpaid for dressing up and playing games?

- David Niven

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.

- Roger Moore

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

- Dick Schaap

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible.

- Bryn Terfel

This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn`t any Board, and now there isn`t any Trade.

- Ahmad Bahai

The state has told the units of government in Hamilton County that for the previous four years there has been absolutely no increase in collection of county option income taxes, ... Therefore they say they have overpaid the units of government.

- Anthony Miziko

We booked $21 million of advertising against that down payment in the first 12 days of selling, ... All of a sudden, the speculation that we overpaid went away.

- Apjit Walia