To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn’t raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I’m passionate about food!

Jackman frames his relationship to wealth as fundamentally non-consumerist: money is not a route to status objects but a means to support experiences and pleasures he values. By crediting his father’s upbringing, he casts “least materialistic” as a learned ethic rather than a celebrity pose, contrasting inherited values with the entertainment industry’s conspicuous consumption. The punchline—earning as an actor because of a passion for food—reorients ambition toward sensory enjoyment and hospitality rather than accumulation. The quote also functions as self-deprecating image management: it humanizes a high-earning star by emphasizing ordinary appetites and family influence, suggesting that success need not entail material obsession.