"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle"
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The line also functions as a quiet rebuke to the way celebrity wealth is supposed to perform itself. “After that point it’s all the same” flattens luxury into redundancy, a move that denies the culture of upgrades its favorite storyline: more money equals a more interesting life. Zellweger isn’t arguing that wealth can’t buy comfort; she’s arguing that comfort has a ceiling, and past it you’re mostly purchasing symbols and complications.
“I don’t have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle” is carefully chosen, too. Appetite is bodily, visceral, a matter of taste rather than morality. She isn’t confessing purity; she’s asserting preference, implying decadence is less a temptation than an overrich meal that stops appealing once you’ve been fed. In context, this reads as both self-protection and brand calibration: an A-list actor insisting on ordinary benchmarks to reclaim agency in an industry that monetizes excess. It’s also a subtle piece of class translation, inviting audiences to see her not as an untouchable wealthy figure, but as someone still fluent in the prices that actually shape a day.
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| Topic | Contentment |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Zellweger, Renee. (2026, January 16). Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-youve-reached-the-point-where-you-can-pay-107520/
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Zellweger, Renee. "Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-youve-reached-the-point-where-you-can-pay-107520/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/once-youve-reached-the-point-where-you-can-pay-107520/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










