Quotes from Macaulay Culkin

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.'

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'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

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.

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.

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 don't even get an allowance.

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.

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.

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

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.

Almost everything people do is artistic. That doesn't make it art.

I want to be able to hump people's legs and have them do nothing about it.

Don't forget to be silly, don't forget to take something away from this whole experience, and don't forget to stick something up your sleeve.

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.