Macaulay Culkin Quotes

"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."

"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 have no control over people's perceptions of me at all and that's one of the things I decided very early on is that I can't control the way other people think of me. All I can do, especially when it comes to my career is go out there and do cool unique kinds of things."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it."

"I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie."

"I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want."

"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."

"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."

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

"They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising."

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

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

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

"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'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."

"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.'"

"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."

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

"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."

"I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out."