Quotes By Anna Chlumsky

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.

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.'

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.