Royalties Quotes

When a community theater group was caught performing one of Kaufman`s plays without permission or payment of royalties, Kaufman threatened to send them to jail for theft. The theater director thought they didn`t need to pay royalties because, as he put it, "It`s just a small, insignificant, little theater in a small, insignificant, little town." Kaufman`s reply: "Then we`ll send you all to a small, insignificant, little jail."

I`m personally trying to change my image and change things about myself but they don`t want to let it die. I guess there are more sales in controversy. They should change the title of `Hard Copy` to Hard Charlie or Sheen Copy, Christ I`m on there twice a week I should get some royalties maybe. Are there so few things going on out there that my birthday party made news? Just a couple days ago on Hard Copy they said I had a nice birthday party and my parents and everybody was there , a good family night, a sober night. They said, `but the real party took place the next day when Charlie Sheen and all his buddies had a roomful of strippers and porn stars and there were adult film stars on all the monitors in every room of the house`, I`m thinking `No this is absolute madness I was at my house watching football with my friends!` I`ve got twenty witnesses.

It`s very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

I`ve always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn`t.

I didn`t know anything about publishing companies. I didn`t know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.

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.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

I can tell you this, if it wasn`t for my book royalties, I`d be in debt.

I didn`t know anything about publishing companies. I didn`t know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.