Macaulay Culkin Quotes

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

I don't even get an allowance.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.

I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I'm doing naughty things, I'm drinking too much, I'm going to clubs. It really didn't matter to me, other than the fact that some parents wouldn't let their kids hang out with me.

Because of what I did when I was 10 years old, I'm not living from paycheck to paycheck, and I can do things because I want to do them.

I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

All the child-star clichés. I've tried very hard to avoid them all.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think Party Monster is one of those.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, "Where have you been?" The second comment they make is always, "Oh, you've grown up."

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.

I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.

I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.

It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.