Quotes from Anna Chlumsky

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.

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.

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

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

My family and school life are important to me.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

I'm a total nerd.

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.

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.'

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.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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

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

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?

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 don't have a Twitter account.

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

I was an international studies major.

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.

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.