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I like my films to have a certain amount of realism – something that’s thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as an actor.

I’d rather be an adviser. I don’t wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I’ve accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don’t wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people’s hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can’t cash.

I’ve written books on advertising-cheque books.

I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella’s friend, David Tennant] wasn’t at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and I said to Tom, ‘Oh, my friend’s a really, really big Doctor Who fan,’ and he replied, ‘Wait!’ He got his cheque book out and asked, ‘What his name?’ I said ‘David Tennant’. He wrote, ‘To David Tennant, seventeen pounds forty five’, signed it and I asked him what it meant. He said, ‘He’ll know’

I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I’m not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one’s own. … I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out – even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They’re pretty grounded; it wasn’t until they saw the trailer for ‘Battleship’ that they were like, ‘Ooh, this is a big movie, isn’t it?

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn’t wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

Well, it seems a bit silly, looking there, said Will. It’s not like Mortmain’s going to lodge a complaint against the Shadow-hunters through official channels. ‘Very upset Shadowhunters refused to all die when I wanted them to. Demand recompense. Please mail cheque to A. Mortmain, 18 Kensington Road—

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the ‘Here’s your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.’ I’m not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.

Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it’s just an everyday lifestyle.

Secure web servers are the equivalent of heavy armoured cars. The problem is, they are being used to transfer rolls of coins and cheques written in crayon by people on park benches to merchants doing business in cardboard boxes from beneath highway bridges. Further, the roads are subject to random detours, anyone with a screwdriver can control the traffic lights, and there are no police.

people only ever offer you a great deal of money for rubbish. The greater the number of noughts on the cheque, the greater the crapular content of the movie; the better the work, the less you’re paid.

The ones I like are ‘cheque’ and ‘enclosed.’

I’m thinking of when the Qatari representative was given five minutes with Bill Clinton for a million dollar cheque.

As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I’m enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.

Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don’t feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced

I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

Why not sit around a Beverly Hills pool collecting residual cheques? That is not the kind of life I want.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

I want a regular pay cheque.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.

Hip-hop don’t have no fresh energy, none at all. It’s money driven, everybody tryin’ to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company’s fitness.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

When I ask President Marcos for two million dollars, at worst he wants to know whether he should bring the money straight away or whether I can wait for a cheque in the post.

As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.