A biography for Macaulay Culkinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.'”
“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.”
“It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.”
“I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.”
“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 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'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.”
“מייקל ג'קסון ואני מדברים כל הזמן. אני חושב שאנחנו מבינים אחד את השני בצורה שרוב האנשים לא יכולים להבין אף אחד מאיתנו.”
“אני יכול ללכת לכל מסעדה בלי להזמין מקום, אבל בזמן שאני שם, כולם יינעצו מבטים.”
“הייתה לי את כל התהילה שכל אחד יכול לרצות, וברחתי מזה.”
“תמיד אמרתי שהמשחק מצא אותי. לא ממש מצאתי אותו.”
“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've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.”