Macaulay Culkin Quotes

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.

I've suffered from an identity crisis my entire life. It's why I went into acting.

Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand what I've experienced, what I've felt and seen, so it becomes a little easier to handle. On the other hand, I don't want it to be just a cathartic experience, an outpouring of grief or whatever it is.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

When I started studying acting in New York, I didn't plan to be an action hero. I just wanted to learn acting because I felt it was something I needed to try to do for myself, to express something, my inner pain, or something I couldn't get out.

I was going mad. One day, I just started writing, and it was like therapy because I was in a position where I couldn't rage. I never expected to be a writer; it's a different world than I ever expected to be in.

Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

I look in the mirror, and what I see is someone who has never grown up - a crashing sentimentalist who alternates between great heights and black depths.

Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I've had the longest mid-life crisis ever.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.