Anna Chlumsky Quotes

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
Anna Chlumsky

Movies, Treat, Kids

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Food, Someone, Acting

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Life, Family, Home

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.'
Anna Chlumsky

Down, Problems, Else

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!'
Anna Chlumsky

Computers, Mind, Said

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

Doubt, Acting, Else

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Truth, Business, 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.'
Anna Chlumsky

Great, Happy, Job

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

Fact, House, Publishing

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Mom, Start, She

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Experience, School, Friends

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!'
Anna Chlumsky

Life, Down, Path

I don't have a Twitter account.
Anna Chlumsky

Account, Twitter

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

Nice, Minds, Guess

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?
Anna Chlumsky

Trust, Mom, Teen

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

Love, Black, Put

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
Anna Chlumsky

I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
Anna Chlumsky

God, Sleep, Night

I was an international studies major.
Anna Chlumsky

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

Good, Girl, Pretty

I'm a total nerd.
Anna Chlumsky

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

Politics, Whole, Social

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

School, Acting, Easy

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.
Anna Chlumsky

Around, Child, Attention

Kids are truthful by nature.
Anna Chlumsky

Nature, Kids, Truthful

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 3, 1980

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