Macaulay Culkin Quotes
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
-
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
-
Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
-
I made all my generals out of mud.
-
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
-
Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
-
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
-
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
-
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
-
I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
-
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
-
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
-
A dream acting role would be Matt Damon in the Bourne series. I would love to do something like that!
-
As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
-
I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
-
I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
-
I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
-
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
-
There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
-
It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
-
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'
-
I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
-
I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
-
After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
