Emilio Estevez Quotes

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

I've been to MTV and all of that worldly stuff. It's death. It's meaningless.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

I have tons of sunglasses. My husband won't let me buy another pair because I lose them all the time.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

Like my mum, I sometimes buy things I shouldn't and fill my house with rubbish.

People surround themselves in their houses with things they don't really need, that they have to dust all the time.

I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Buying sports cars, going to expensive nightclubs, spraying people with champagne and things like that - what I learnt is that it wasn't for me, and, in fact, I feel pretty empty after doing that.

What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.

I have a habit of collecting all my old stuff. I still have all my old clothes and old cars, but my wife spends all my money.

I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic, and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?'

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.

I look about my house and see there are lots of lovely things in it, but I constantly buy more.

I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point.

If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.