Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
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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!'
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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.
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First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
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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!
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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.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
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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.'
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People have good and bad days.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I was an international studies major.
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Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.
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When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
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A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
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It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.