Day Quote by Eddie the Eagle

My first real regular paid job was as a showgirl at The Skyline in Heathrow in a place called Diamond Lil's wearing silver high…

— Michaela Strachan

Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been years where my promotional stuff has brought in only a few hundred.

— Eddie the Eagle

When I was about 18, I started playing restaurants for £150 a night. I felt like a millionaire.

— Sam Fender

I got £30 for my first gig, cash in hand.

— Kate Nash

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I earned more than other riders, but even in my best year I never grossed more than about $300,000.

— Eddy Merckx

I was extremely lucky as I was in one of the last generations of British students who went to university and had my fees…

— Alice Roberts

When I was at Hinckley I was on £200 a week. I was flying around getting myself into trouble here and there. It was…

— Andre Gray

At 16, I got a part-time job selling double-glazing door to door. That was soul destroying but the worst part-time job I did was…

— Kate Thornton

I put $5 million into the real-estate business when the world was coming to an end, and three years later, by 1980, I woke…

— John Catsimatidis

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

— R. Kelly

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

— Chris LeDoux