Anna Chlumsky Quotes

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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

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!

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

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

My family and school life are important to me.

I don't have a Twitter account.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Show business got really tainted for me.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

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

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

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.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

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

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

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.

I was an international studies major.

People have good and bad days.

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!'