Culkin Quotes & Sayings

We all fell in love with the young Macaulay Culkin, back in the day — Joe Buck

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. — Margaret Culkin Banning

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it. — Macaulay Culkin

My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know. — 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

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

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. — Macaulay Culkin

Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal. — Anna Chlumsky

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

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs. — Kieran 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.' — Macaulay Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

When I was younger, I actually had a ghost face mask, and I stood in my sister's room in the corner for, like, half an hour until she saw in the reflection, me behind her, and she freaked out and started slapping me. — Rory Culkin

It was a lot of auditions and tapings and stuff like that. — Kieran Culkin

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

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. — Macaulay Culkin

I'm not a solid enough actor to have techniques. — Rory Culkin

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs. — Kieran Culkin

Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live. — Rory Culkin

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.' — Rory Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

I was the ghost-faced killer for Halloween in the third or fourth grade. — Rory Culkin

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility. — Tia Mowry

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of Nick Stahl - those are my three guys. — Rory Culkin

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up. — Margaret Culkin Banning

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. — Macaulay Culkin

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

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

People who work with me think I should cut my hair. They say casting directors are less likely to hire me with long hair - that they don't have imaginations and can't picture me looking normal. People literally have conference calls about my head when I'm not around. I mean, obviously I would cut my hair for an amazing part. — Rory 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

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

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

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

If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race. — Macaulay Culkin

Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore. — Linda Blair

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it. — Macaulay Culkin

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

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true. — Margaret Culkin Banning

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director. — Kieran 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've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it. — Macaulay Culkin

After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did. — Macaulay Culkin

I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS. — Brian Bonsall

Igby was a really good opportunity for me to grow up. The cast was great. — Kieran Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

I'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year. — 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

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct? — Margaret Culkin Banning

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

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. — Macaulay Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around. — Macaulay Culkin

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. — Macaulay Culkin

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open. — Kieran Culkin

I did this movie called 'Lymelife' when I was 18, and you know, it was the first time I was working as an adult, a legal adult, and that was a huge growing experience for me. — Rory Culkin

What does one save for, anyhow? For a few tired hours at the end of life when one sits and counts dollars? Or do we save so that those last years will not be mentally barren or esthetically shabby? I try to save a few things to furnish my mind decently, on the theory that no auctioneer can get in there to sell off all the furniture. — Margaret Culkin Banning

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. — Macaulay Culkin

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct? — Margaret Culkin Banning

I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are. — Margaret Culkin Banning

Math is one of my favorite subjects. — 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

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn. — Kieran Culkin

There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin ... actor. — 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

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling. — Macaulay Culkin

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

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. — Macaulay Culkin

I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating. — Kieran Culkin

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

I don't think baseball could survive without all the statistical appurtenances involved in calculating pitching, hitting and fielding percentages. Some people could do without the games as long as they got the box scores. — John M. Culkin

Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that. — Macaulay Culkin

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps. — Rory Culkin

When I was little, acting opportunities were always proposed to me as 'a favour.' — Rory Culkin

The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal. — Kieran Culkin

Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate. — Kieran Culkin

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. — Margaret Culkin Banning

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much. — Kieran Culkin

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

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun. — Margaret Culkin Banning

Macauley Culkin was on the show a lot. Or Haley Joe Osment. — Mary Hart

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've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind. — 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 think we all miss our childhood. — Rory Culkin

I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film. — Kieran Culkin

I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't. — Kieran 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

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard — Margaret Culkin Banning

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 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

The whole family is tight. We all really love each other. — Kieran Culkin

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

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe. — Kieran Culkin