I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

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!

Anna Chlumsky

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

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

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!

Anna Chlumsky

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Anna Chlumsky

First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

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

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

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

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.

Anna Chlumsky

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

Anna Chlumsky

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Anna Chlumsky

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.'

Anna Chlumsky