Anna Chlumsky quotes:

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  • People have good and bad days.

  • Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

  • In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.'

  • Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.

  • My family and school life are important to me.

  • I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.

  • I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

  • In order to satirize adequately, I think you need to bring people down to Earth and be like, 'Yeah, these people drink coffee and have tummy troubles and they go to the bathroom like anybody else, and they all have relationship problems, if they even have relationships.

  • I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?

  • Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

  • I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.

  • I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

  • Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

  • You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.

  • When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.

  • We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

  • I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

  • Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers,' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!

  • I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

  • It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

  • When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.

  • But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

  • There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

  • When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

  • Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

  • It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

  • I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

  • I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!

  • I was an international studies major.

  • First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

  • Whenever people are excited about 'My Girl', I always think if I met the kids from 'The Neverending Story.' I would probably be the same way.

  • I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

  • I'm very happy to make specific choices (as an actor), (but) you can't be married to them because you never know when the writers are going to be like, "By the way, you have no brothers, you have a sister."

  • I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.

  • The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

  • There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

  • But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

  • I don't have a Twitter account.

  • I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

  • Kids are truthful by nature.

  • People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

  • Show business got really tainted for me.

  • Supposedly I haven't changed.

  • A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

  • Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

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