Anna Chlumsky Quotes

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

Anna Chlumsky

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• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • Mean
  • Information

• I don't think good and evil are polarized.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Without
  • Basics

• My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Parents

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Travel

• I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Me
  • Put
  • Scheme

• I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Remember
  • War
  • Childhood

• I like roles of people who can overcome things because there's strength in that and an arc - and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end up in a completely different place, so you've seen this growth and some humanity in the role.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • True
  • Dream
  • Summer

• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Character
  • Problem

• Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• about Fruit of the Loom What does fruit got to do with underbritches? I guess it's to remind us when we take them down we go, 'Oh, I should've eaten more fruit today. I guess.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Today

• Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Up
  • Sea

• Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Age
  • Progress

• The moment we begin to map the history of money across the last five thousand years of Eurasian history, startling patterns begin to emerge.

  

  David Graeber
  • Money
  • History

• The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

  

  Nina Conti
  • Real
  • Talk
  • Puppets

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I spent a long time in London on the stage, and you knew exactly what you were going to be doing. You not only knew the performance, but you also knew exactly where you would stand.

  

  Daniel Sharman
  • Time
  • Long

• Do you write novels?" I said. "Novels, Lord no," she said. "I can't even stay married.

  

  Pam Houston
  • She

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

  

  Anna Chlumsky