Quotes By Anna Chlumsky

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

I don't have a Twitter account.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm a total nerd.

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.

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.

Show business got really tainted for me.

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!

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

Supposedly I haven't changed.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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.

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.'

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.

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?

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.