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I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

— Edd Byrnes

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

— Mona Singh

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

— Ian Mckellen

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

— Michael Imperioli

I was 9 years old, and this was - well, whenever it was, they paid a thousand bucks. I thought I was going to be rich forever! But I had no thought I would be an actor at that point.

— Tim Daly

I think it would be amazing to be a character actor and still be a lead now and then in movies.

— Britt Robertson

In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

— Barry Bostwick

I'm not sure I'd hire myself in anything. I certainly couldn't be an actor. That would be terrible. For everyone.

— Richard Ayoade

I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.

— Taylor Lautner

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Oh my gosh, I would love to guest star on 'Entourage.'

— Autumn Reeser