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When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.

— James Nesbitt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I've done stuff to pay my dues and that's what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

— Rachael Taylor

There is no free lunch, so if you're playing with the big train set - on big movies - it's a lot of money they're entrusting you with, and you have to get that money back for them. I don't take that responsibility lightly.

— Jon Favreau

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

— Tamara Ecclestone

I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

— Morris Chestnut

In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

— Halsey

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

— William Lyon Phelps

I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.

— Julia Sweeney

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

— Kelly Osbourne

No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement.

— James Earl Jones

✗Opposing Perspectives

I didn't have the money to put myself through drama school, so I thought - naively - that if I wrote a play and put it on at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, agents would see me and that would be my ticket to Hollywood. I wrote a musical; an acting coach saw it and put me on his course for free while I wrote for his company.

— Neil Jackson