Money talks

“Don’t get me started on the pay disparity, but male actors get paid more because they used to say they drew in the audiences. And actually, that hasn’t been true for decades, but they still like to use that as a reason not to pay women as much as their male counterparts.” Actress Olivia Colman (pictured) on the gender pay gap in Hollywood, quoted on CNN

“That’s probably true. What sense is there in being a billionaire if you’re not a bully?” Activist investor Nelson Peltz on being called a “bully billionaire” in a lawsuit by the wedding planners he hired for his daughter’s nuptials, quoted in the Financial Times

“My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.”

“Not all Germans believe in God, but they all believe in the Bundesbank.” Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission in the 1980s, alluding to the German central bank’s reputation for being the most conservative and best-managed financial institution in the world, quoted in The Telegraph

“Americans, they’re bad losers.” Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter, who suspects that the US probe into the theft of $200m by Fifa officials in 2015 was revenge for awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar at the expense of the US, quoted in The Telegraph

“It says: ‘Nouveau riche’... that’s me. Self-made and proud of it. Actually, both me and Carole [Middleton] were ‘multis’ before we were 30 and no one really talks about it.” Kate Middleton’s uncle Gary Goldsmith, brother of Carole Middleton, talking about a tattoo on his back, quoted in The Times