Anna Chlumsky Quotes

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?

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.

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.

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

Show business got really tainted for me.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn’t – like the Ying Yang Twins‘ ‘Shake‘ – I’ll be in a dress, and I’ll krump to it. It’s horrible!

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.

Supposedly I haven‘t changed.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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!’

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

I was an international studies major.

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.

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.

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

My family and school life are important to me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

People have good and bad days.

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.’

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

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.

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!’

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.

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