Anna Chlumsky Quotes

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

My family and school life are important to me.

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.

Show business got really tainted for me.

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?

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.

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.

I don't have a Twitter account.

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'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."

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

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!

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

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

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.

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 only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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 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.

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

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

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.

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.

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.

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

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'm a total nerd.

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

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.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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