Wealth & Money Quote by Dustin Diamond

Diamond’s line lands like a defensive flinch dressed up as street wisdom: fame turns desire into a suspected scam, and women into potential litigants. Coming from a former teen idol who spent much of his adulthood wrestling a tabloid-ready downfall, the intent reads less like sociological insight than self-protection. It’s a warning, sure, but also a way of reclaiming control in a life where the audience, the industry, and the press all felt entitled to him.

The subtext is transactional paranoia. Sex isn’t framed as intimacy or even mutual messiness; it’s framed as a trap with a payout schedule. That choice of imagery (“have your kid,” “get all this money”) collapses parenthood into a hustle and reduces women to strategy, not people. It’s a familiar celebrity narrative: the rich man cast as quarry, the “girl” as predator. The language does a lot of work there. “Girls” infantilizes; “a lot” turns anecdote into a sweeping category; “they figure” implies scheming without needing evidence.

Culturally, it taps into a persistent pop-myth about child support as a jackpot and reproduction as leverage. That myth survives because it flatters the famous and comforts the anxious: if relationships fail, it’s because someone was after your money, not because you were young, impulsive, or difficult to love. Diamond’s quote isn’t just about opportunists; it’s about a celebrity trying to rewrite vulnerability as vigilance.