As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: ‘Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.’ – Macaulay Culkin
I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I’m no better than a bag of potato chips. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
After seeing ‘Big,’ I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I’m there, everyone’s gonna be staring. – Macaulay Culkin
The funny thing is, I’m not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place. – Macaulay Culkin
It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It’s even worse when they try to read your mail. – Macaulay Culkin
I get carded for soda, you know, when I go to the supermarket. I mean, they card me for everything. You know, I can’t even get through a hand of black jack without getting carded, like, five times. – Macaulay Culkin
Gosh, I couldn’t even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that. – Macaulay Culkin
It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I’m no writer. This is not my calling. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I’ve always been that way, and I’ve always written stuff down. – Macaulay Culkin
If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I’ll do it as long as I can. – Macaulay Culkin
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. – Macaulay Culkin
