Kato Kaelin Quotes

To be famous and broke is hard.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

I've got actor friends who didn't get breaks, who struggle and worry about things that I'm fortunate not to have to worry about.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

The difference between a child's aspiration and that family's situation, is the exact measurement of that family's frustrations.

I don't like inherited wealth.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I think I was born into an incredibly fortunate environment.

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Kid’s starting out with a great deal of money is not necessarily good for the children or society.

Even if I was to give my children a small part of my wealth, it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes.

I had a somewhat charmed life. I was brought up at the BBC. I did meet so many people cleverer than myself in those years. Often, I was slapped down and made to feel not good enough.

I came from a family of extremely old money, and so by the time I was born, there was really just a trickle of money left.

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.

Because of how I grew up and on 'Made In Chelsea,' I never had any challenge.

There was a commonality in a lot of the private school experiences that I had of children whose lives were not their own. They thought they were their own, but they were essentially gifted this life by their parents. So they were spending money; they were going on trips - I guess, in a way, it is their life, but they didn't earn it.