Anna Chlumsky Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Anna Chlumsky

• Whenever people are excited about ‘My Girl,’ I always think if I met the kids from ‘The Neverending Story.’ I would probably be the same way.

  Anna Chlumsky

• 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.

  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.

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

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• We’re at this place where we’re pushing the next stylistic envelope.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• Supposedly I haven’t changed.

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• Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad.

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• Show business got really tainted for 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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• 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.

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• People have good and bad days.

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

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• Kids are truthful by nature.

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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.

  Anna Chlumsky

• 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!’

  Anna Chlumsky

• 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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Anna Chlumsky (41)

Birth:	3rd December, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Anna Chlumsky is an American film, stage and television actress who rose to prominence for her role as Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl, as well as in its 1994 sequel. Chlumsky abandoned her acting career in 1999 to study at the University of Chicago, and pursued other work before returning to acting in her late twenties, starring in independent films such as Blood Car and In the Loop. As of 2012, Chlumsky has a starring role in the HBO series Veep, for which she was nominated in 2013 and 2014 for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Chlumsky was born in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Walther Lutheran High School, and in 2002 from the University of Chicago.

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