Seth Rogen Admits That He's Not Interested in Making More Money
Seth Rogen has been in the public eye ever since he made a splash in Freaks and Geeks in 1999. Since then, he's gone on to star in films like Superbad and Knocked Up as well as his current TV project, The Studio, on Apple TV+.
The 42-year-old actor has earned quite a fortune — $80 million, per Celebrity Net Worth — and he's saying that's more than enough money for him. Rogen revealed his nonchalant attitude toward his finances on the March 27 episode of Dax Shepherd's Armchair Expert.
“I guess I’ve seen over time — and I’m just so not like this — money is a thing people really hoard and have a lot of pride in: the money itself. They wanna turn their money into more money, and love how much their money is making them, and how profitable their money’s money is — and that is just not how I think,” he admitted.
Rogen isn't interested in taking his wealth to the next level. In fact, he's "afraid" that he's "gonna die with too much money." He and his wife, Lauren Miller, have a good reason for the attitude. “I don’t have children," he explained. "And I’m afraid I’m gonna die and be like, ‘I could have had a fucking place on the beach!’ I don’t wanna die with $10 million in the bank that I could’ve spent doing fun alive things… I could have been jetting this whole time!”
Rogen and Miller married in 2011, and they've held firm on their decision to have a child-free existence. He told Esquire in February that they realized they "just didn’t want to be one of those people" who had a family — it wasn't for them.
He's been stung by the criticism from the internet at times, but he's now hitting back.
"The most disturbing comment that I saw a lot of was 'Who’s going to take care of you when you’re old?' Which to me is very telling," Rogen explained. "Is that why you’re having kids? Because I have two things to say: One, that’s very selfish to create a human so someone can take care of you. And two, just because you have a kid, I hate to break it to you, that doesn’t mean they’re going to do that."
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