He walked away from a net worth of $50 million at the age of 14. Why?
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00:00I can't seem to find my toothbrush, so I'll pick one up when I go out today.
00:08How does it feel to have the number one movie in the country?
00:11It's great.
00:12Well, congratulations, Macaulay, on this big award you've won tonight.
00:18My goodness.
00:19I mean, the funniest leading man in a motion picture.
00:23Well, thank you, Miss Welch.
00:24I wonder if you could just do, you know, do that thing for me.
00:29Just one time, please.
00:31Okay, Rack, just for you.
00:34Aaaaaah!
00:41There's like a mystery around you.
00:43You're not, you don't do these things a lot.
00:45Yeah, yeah, I'm kind of like the groundhog.
00:47You were, you know, just like huge, you know, at such a young age, for so long, and then
01:03you kind of stopped when you were, what, 14?
01:05Yeah, about 13, 14.
01:06Yeah, took about a decade off.
01:08Yeah.
01:09And so you stopped because you were just tired of it, or do you think you took it for granted
01:15because it was so easy?
01:17No, I don't think I took it for granted.
01:47He was a bad man.
01:56Like, honestly, he was a bad man.
01:58He was abusive, and like, yeah, like, physically and mentally.
02:01Yeah, like, you know, like, yeah, I mean, you know, I can show you all my scars if you
02:05want to, but like, yeah, no, he was a bad dude kind of thing.
02:08Just to you?
02:09No, no, across the board.
02:18Dad, can you come here and help me?
02:27Hey, this is Matt.
02:29Can we call you Matt?
02:30Sure.
02:32Step up here.
02:33Very nice to meet you.
02:34I mean, this is it, pal.
02:35You are a bona fide star as of right now.
02:38The number one box office movie of the weekend.
02:40Nice to have you on the show.
02:41Happy about this success?
02:42Yeah.
02:43Yeah, yeah.
02:44It's all in a day's work, isn't it?
02:46They tell me that you're trying to gain a little weight, huh?
02:48Yeah.
02:49How's that?
02:50You look real good.
02:51I'm very skinny.
02:53I weigh about 62 pounds.
02:55Like, the kids in my class weigh about 97, so they outweigh me by about, like, 30 pounds.
03:00Take you to Radu and bulk you up.
03:02Yeah.
03:03You, me, and Cindy together will be working out.
03:06You from New York City?
03:07Yes.
03:08How did they find you for all of these movies?
03:10I have an agent.
03:12Since you were a little baby, or?
03:14Since I was six.
03:15Since you were six.
03:16Did you want to go into the business, or did your mom and dad think it would be a good thing for you?
03:19How did it happen?
03:20Well, it just kind of popped up.
03:23It's unbelievable.
03:24Who's your agent?
03:26Because we could use him, I'll tell you that right now.
03:29Take care of yourself, okay?
03:30Nice to meet you, Matt.
03:31Pauly Paulson, the biggest, the giant, beat Rocky.
03:35Knocked him out.
03:46Yeah, my father was such a crazy person about it.
03:50I did the whole episode without cue cards.
03:53He wanted you to do it without cue cards.
03:54Yeah, so also that meant every other person in the cast couldn't have cue cards either, in any scene that I was in.
04:16He was just a bad dude.
04:17That's the thing.
04:18He was a bad, abusive man.
04:25But then all of a sudden, imagine now this man who you dislike, kind of thing, and he dislikes you.
04:31Now I become the sole focus of him when I start earning.
04:36So now all of a sudden I'm going around the country locked in a room with a guy who doesn't like me, kind of thing.
04:42But at the same time, look at it.
04:45I was kind of even relatively jealous.
04:47Oh, he was jealous.
04:49I think so.
04:50Everything that he tried to do in his life, I excelled at before I was 10 years old.
05:14And eventually, I just was like, I'm done.
05:35I'm done, guys.
05:36I hope you all made your money because there's no more coming from me.
05:45I needed something else.
05:46I needed to grow and develop as a person.
05:48I was looking forward to high school.
05:49Yeah.
05:50I was actually looking forward to going to school.
05:56Honestly, I have forgiveness in my heart.
05:58You do?
05:59Yeah.
06:00I've made amends with that whole kind of thing.
06:04Oh, yeah?
06:05That's good.
06:06Yeah.
06:07At the same time, I don't think he's there.
06:08So that's why I kind of don't want to really kind of go there with him a little bit.
06:12Do you think you protect your money, by the way?
06:13Yeah.
06:14No, I still got...
06:15I actually live below my means.
06:17I lead a very, very simple life.
06:38That's the thing.
06:39I treat myself like a retired person.
06:40Everything I do is a hobby now.
06:42When it comes on, which it comes on I'm sure every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, you don't watch it?
06:47No, not really.
06:48And you don't go out of the house during that time?
06:50Yes, I definitely don't.
06:51Yeah.
06:52It's my season.
07:11It's my season.
07:12It's my season.
07:13It's my season.