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.

Show business got really tainted for me.

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.

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.'

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.'

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!

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

I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

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.

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.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

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.

I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.

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

My family and school life are important to me.

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

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