Top 194 Dues Quotes & Sayings

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

No one can say I didn't pay my dues in life.

Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.

I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues; and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

I really have paid my dues. When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days, I remind myself of that.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

Um, Dues ex machina anyone?

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I did a lot of dues-paying in L.A. that I didn't pay in Boston because I was kind of a success there. It was all worth it, I guess.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.

I'm a New Yorker; I've paid my dues.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I've paid my dues. It wasn't overnight success. I went to tons of casting calls and auditions... But I've got to give luck some credit.

I paid my dues; I certainly did.

All of the sudden people say, "She's got tits and legs and blond hair. Let's talk to her!" I've been paying dues for years in modeling. Not only that, it took a month and a half of Chuck Russell, The Mask's director, and Jim Carrey trying to get New Line to say O.K. on me. I didn't sleep; I had an ulcer. Of course, when people talk of paying their dues, they mean years of going to acting school and auditionin.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip.

Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

The joy is in the work. The travel is the dues you pay.

In the old days wrestling had a certain showmanship. All those people paid their dues. They knew how to wrestle.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.

Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I'm the weird poet who has paid her dues in the experimental world for 30 or 40 years.

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.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay their fair and reasonable dues.

I've worked really hard to get to where I am. Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Actors and writers need to come back to the theater because it's a place where you can learn. You have to pay your dues, and people who haven't paid their dues in the theater, I think, have a hard time creating a whole career.

The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women's unions.

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

When I cook, I generally stick with what I know, what I'm comfortable with, and what I feel I've paid my dues learning, and am good at.

Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.

There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

In order for a musician to grow, he's got to pay his dues. Some musicians ask me, 'well, what do you mean? You're saying I have to 'starve' and pay all these dues just to play jazz?' And my answer to them is, well, to some degree, yes! Because in order to play jazz you have to live it. Those notes mean something. They don't just come from your brain, they come from your heart and soul too. And in order to have that heart and soul you have to experience life. So I relate my music to my life and my life style. You can't separate the two.

Not everyone gets a reservation in the hot restaurant. You must pay your dues. Like it or not there is a pecking order.

Some might say I didn't pay enough of my dues, and I think I've paid my dues.

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.

In Maine, nobody is required to belong to a union or pay dues.

Harry Dean Stanton, Anjelica Huston - a lot of people have studied with me. It's paying my dues.