Anna Chlumsky

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

“But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'”

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

“Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.”

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

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

“I was an international studies major.”

“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 truthful by nature.”

“When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.”

“I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.”

“People have good and bad days.”

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

“Show business got really tainted for me.”

“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!'”

“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.”

“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!”