100 Quotes by Macaulay Culkin

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.