Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.
Obviously, every dictator pays a great deal of attention to who is running the army. There's always a base right outside the capitol to protect the head of government.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
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.
I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!
For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me.
I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.
The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time.
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
Darwin: Shoot, you animals. They'll pay you well for Darwin's hide.
Lestat: Your body's dying. Pay no attention, it happens to us all.
Wizard of Oz: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.
I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.
Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
