I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served…

I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.

— Allison Janney

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

— Zoe Kravitz

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

— Jesse Jackson

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

— Mark Vonnegut

I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table,…

— Dana Fox

...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...

— Anne Fortier

Someone said I never paid any dues. I feel my whole life was struggling, because we were poor. We were alone, we had nothing--no…

— Mariah Carey

People all of a sudden just see me and hear me having hit records and it seems to have come out of the blue.…

— Mariah Carey

Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough?... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s…

— Jim Clyburn

I've paid my dues, climbed the ranks without trash talk.

— Kelvin Gastelum

I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday…

— Silas Weir Mitchell

In the end, if you're in the UFC, you are a professional, you paid your dues, and you know exactly what this job entails.…

— Diego Sanchez

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

— Richard Pryor

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

— Colin Firth

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of…

— Donna Brazile