Anna Chlumsky famous quotes

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

#People #Surround

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

#Acting #Too Much #Taste

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

#Waiting #Mind #Gold

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

#Growing Up #Fall #School

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

#Home #School #Years

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

#Brother #Kissing #Bigs

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

#Angel #Shows #Show Business

My family and school life are important to me.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#School #Important #My Family

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

#Jobs #People

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

#Girl #Good Movie #Adults

Supposedly I haven't changed.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Changed

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

#Coffee #Thinking #Order

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

#Cute #Kids #Adults

Show business got really tainted for me.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Shows #Show Business

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.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Past #People #Looks

People have good and bad days.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Bad Day #People #Good And Bad

Kids are truthful by nature.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Kids #Truthful

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

#Children #Fun #People

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

#Sports #Watches #Affair

I was an international studies major.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Study

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 #Reason

You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Office #Looks #Kind

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Kids #Idiot #Treats

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 #Worst

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

#Sweet #Jobs #Would Be

I don't have a Twitter account.
-- Anna Chlumsky

#Accounts

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

#Nice #People #Mind

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

#Self Esteem #College #Years

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

#Mom #Jobs #Ideas

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

#Black And White #Watches #Tvs

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

#College #Shows #Show Business

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

#Sleep #Night #Worry

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

#House #Assistants #Firsts