Anna Chlumsky Quotes

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Anna Chlumsky

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 3, 1980

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

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

Anna Chlumsky

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

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.

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.

Anna Chlumsky

Show business got really tainted for me.

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.

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Kids are truthful by nature.

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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

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

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

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.

Anna Chlumsky

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

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.

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I was an international studies major.

Anna Chlumsky

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

Anna Chlumsky

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

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

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