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
When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things. – Anna Chlumsky
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! – Anna Chlumsky
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
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. – Anna Chlumsky
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
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
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
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
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. – Anna Chlumsky
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
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! – Anna Chlumsky
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
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. – Anna Chlumsky
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
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting. – Anna Chlumsky
I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport. – Anna Chlumsky