“Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been year...” — Eddie the Eagle Quote

“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.”

“For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.”

“I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles - no money, no training, no skis, no snow.”

“However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract between citizens and governments sharply into political thinking, paving the way for popular democracy and constitutional republicanism.”

“When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.”

“I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called 'Film Culture.'”