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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. "

Anna Chlumsky

Child

You

Weird

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Leave

Easy

" 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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Too Much

Accounting

" 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. "

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

" 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!' "

" 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. "

Anna Chlumsky

First

Mom

" 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? "

" A lot of movies treat kids like idiots. "

" 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!' "

" Supposedly I haven't changed. "

Anna Chlumsky

Changed

Supposedly

" Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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

Back

Meeting

" Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting. "

" Show business got really tainted for me. "

" My family and school life are important to me. "

Anna Chlumsky

School

Family

" 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. "