Anna Chlumsky Quotes
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Show business got really tainted for me.
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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!
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Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.
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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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People have good and bad days.
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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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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.
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I was an international studies major.
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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.
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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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Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.
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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 I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
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Supposedly I haven't changed.
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As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.
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A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
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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.'
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I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.
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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.
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I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
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There's a theory out there that if you're in a public profession you're fair game. I couldn't disagree with that idea more. Especially with children - half the time they don't choose to be in that profession. For people to objectify other people's lives - kids or not - I find very tedious and tiresome. People who have a craft, that's their job. Their job isn't to create fodder for other people who are bored.
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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.
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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.
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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'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.
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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?
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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.
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I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
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