Quotes About Materialism

Today's culture is based on selling us a lifestyle that does not exist. It is selling us values that are worth nothing. It is plain wrong.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic.

We've become a plastic society.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.

I got a little bit pleased with myself. I didn't buy a Rolls-Royce or anything like that but I didn't see my biological family for a while. I was getting a bit self-important and they told me. They dragged me back.

I'm more of a handbag girl; my guilty pleasure is bags. I don't even have a clue how many I own.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.

I don't think what's in my pocketbook matters.

Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

I couldn't care less about clothes or cars.

But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

I'd rather buy clothes than buy a bed.

I've always felt the connection between clothing and confidence, which is why I probably was such a shopaholic.

Most people buy shoes and clothing, but I buy a lot of DVDs.

Assets are cold.

I wear gold all of the time. I collect gold like a magpie.

I've collected a lot of things throughout my life, and I think that's more being a hoarder than being passionate about them, and so I've tried to stop that.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

A real collector does not sell.

You cannot draw happiness from things that may come and go. Career or anything should not become the be-all and end-all of life. It's important to keep a balance.