Money talks

“I see people making billions now, and they wear it on chains, and they show it, and they drive it, and they’re proud of it – and this was ten thousand, not billion… But I just shouldn’t have said it, because I don’t need to share what I know my worth is. Knowing your worth is for yourself.” Model Linda Evangelista (pictured) on her comment in 1990 that she didn’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, quoted in The Sunday Times

“I gave up a very successful career in the City… My friends are on the rich list, and I live a modest life, I gave it up for a career in politics. Is this the biggest pay cheque I have ever had? Yes, what’s wrong with that?” Nigel Farage on his £1.5m fee for starring on reality TV show I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, quoted in the Daily Mail

“Romance, I’ve come to learn, is not simply a thing to spend money on. It is the thing to spend money on because it’s what matters most above all.The rest, in the end, is just expense.” Author David Yoon, quoted in The New York Times

“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.” Michael Caine on Jaws 4, on which he worked for a week and was paid $1.5m, quoted in the Evening Standard

“It was only later I found out they were flogging them off for 50p a time… I wish I’d thought of it myself.” Michael Heseltine on the children in Liverpool in the 1980s who kept following him to ask for autographs, quoted in City AM

Rock musician Noel Gallagher on Netflix’s film SquaringThe Circle, describing his love of vinyl albums and the designs on their covers