Quotes from Anna Chlumsky

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 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.

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!'

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.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

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 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?

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.