Anna Chlumsky Quotes

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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.

People have good and bad days.

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

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

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

I was an international studies major.

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

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!

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

Supposedly I haven't changed.

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.

Kids are truthful by nature.

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

Show business got really tainted for me.

Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

I'm very happy to make specific choices (as an actor), (but) you can't be married to them because you never know when the writers are going to be like, "By the way, you have no brothers, you have a sister."

I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.

The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

An actor's responsibility is to play a character truthfully. That's their responsibility. That's where it ends. If they choose to use their reach and accessibility in order to further something that matters to them, that's their choice and that's great - but it's not for anybody to choose it for them.

Day-to-day scheduling is always a conflict. You go, "Oh, I want to go to that awards show because when am I ever going to do that again?" But then you go, "Yeah...except this other thing is more important." It's more the micro day-to-day stuff that becomes a daily task as opposed to worrying too much about the career.

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

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