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 the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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 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 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.
Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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'm not one of those people who needs that gratification of doing, like, 10 films a year.
There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
He's a friend, but the kind of friend you talk to twice a year.
I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.
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.
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 took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.