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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. "
Anna Chlumsky
Leave
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Me
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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 love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch. "
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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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" Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal. "
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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 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 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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" 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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