Quotes By Anna Chlumsky

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.

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 don't have a Twitter account.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

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.'

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

I'm a total nerd.

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 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.

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.

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.