Anna Chlumsky

“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.”

“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...”

“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.”

“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!”

“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...”

“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 oth...”

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

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

“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.”

“My family and school life are important to me.”

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

“We're at this place where we're pushing the next stylistic envelope.”

“Show business got really tainted for me.”

“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!”