Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor and musician. He became famous as a child actor for his role as Kevin McCallister in the family comedy Home Aloneand its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He is also known for his roles in Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Good Son, The Pagemaster, Richie Rich, Party Monster, and the music video for Michael Jackson's "Black or White". At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 August 1980
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
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.
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.
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
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.
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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.
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.
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 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.
I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.