Macaulay Culkin Quotes

I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?

Each one of us is not a divine afterthought.

You're more than a story.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

What is the value of your existence?

I'm a human being before anything else.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's about superheroes or historical conflicts or monkey gods.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.

If I cannot sing, I have the impression that I no longer exist. I mean it. I mean that I am not physically there.

I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.

In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.

Never underestimate the power of anyone's story... anyone's life.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

I read, therefore, I matter.

What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

I'm just trying to matter.

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.