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

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."

Culkin: "Math is one of my favorite subjects."

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."

Culkin: "I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind."

Culkin: "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."

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

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."

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

Culkin: "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."

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

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."

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

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."

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

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."

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