First time Quote by Yorgos Lanthimos

I got paid 20 grand for my first film. And that's the lowest I ever got paid.

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

— Judd Nelson

My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's…

— Paul Dano

My first paying job was guest starring in 'Touched By An Angel' when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn't believe you…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

— Aaron Paul

Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads. And that…

— Tim Wu

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just…

— Jason Reitman

In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was…

— Jack Ma

Commercials certainly pay more than films. I was pleasantly surprised at the profitability of commercials when I did my first ad for a popular…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25…

— Martin Landau

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

— Roman Coppola

With Courageous, it was the first film where we really began to pay our cast. Because the church owned the previous films and we…

— Stephen Kendrick