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I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

— Al Spalding

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

— Hedy Lamarr

It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

— Pablo Sandoval

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'

— Gordon Taylor

There is a vast difference in the pay package of every actor. Actors are also exploited at various levels, but when we are established, we get paid fairly well. But at times, if an actor asks for a hike, he/she may even get boycotted.

— Divyanka Tripathi

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

— Grant-Lee Phillips

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

— Ed Asner

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

— Marina Abramovic

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

— Charlie Pierce

✗Opposing Perspectives

We're not getting paid. We have these great musicians with us and it gives us a real charge. And the audience gives us a charge, because they keep it interesting all the time.

— Tina Weymouth

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

— Penn Jillette