Macaulay Culkin Quotes

• "And I'm not in a rush. I can do one project a year and feel satisfied with that."
• "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 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 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 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."
• "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 stay away from the typical terms of a diary. It's not like, "Today I woke up and had a piece of toast." I write a lot of essays, short stories, dirty poetry, things like that. It's something I do for myself."
• "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 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."
• "I'm one of those people who'd probably go crazy if I had to do something week in and week out for five years. But I'll check it out."
• "I've always said I want to get this whole acting thing out of my system by the time I'm 30, so I can go off and be a writer."
• "It was for one of his last Christmas specials. I remember I went to his hotel room to rehearse with him, and he was zoned out on medication or something, and I'm thinking, How is this going to happen?"
• "It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it."
• "It's so easy to forget the things that happen to you because it all happens so fast. Sometimes I'll just remember weird things."
• "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."
• "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 don't even get an allowance."