Quotes By Anna Chlumsky

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

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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

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!'

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 was an international studies major.

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.

People have good and bad days.

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!

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.

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.'

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.

My family and school life are important to me.

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