Macaulay Culkin Quotes

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can't be affected by what people are saying.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.

As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

I've changed. I'm not worried about what people think, because I think people think what they want to think anyway.

I want women to learn to find themselves.

It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.

I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.

I stopped worrying about how other people define me a little bit ago. I used to care a lot. Now I just don't care that much. Really, what I'm worried about is, am I being the best me I can be?

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

If you really have your own identity you'll keep on doing what you think is really right for you, and you'll also understand the next step you want to take.