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.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

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

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Supposedly I haven't changed.

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.

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?

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!'

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!

Kids are truthful by nature.

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.

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

Growing up it was the exception because I was maybe the only one in my school or my circle of friends that had that experience. But now that I know more people in the industry, I am realizing this happens to almost everybody.

I'm a total nerd.

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.

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.

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

I was an international studies major.

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

I don't have a Twitter account.

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.

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

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.

People have good and bad days.