An actor's responsibility is to play a character truthfully. That's their responsibility. That's where it ends. If they choose to use their reach and accessibility in order to further something that matters to them, that's their choice and that's great - but it's not for anybody to choose it for them.

Anna Chlumsky

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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Anna Chlumsky

surround people

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

Anna Chlumsky

worry sleep night

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

Anna Chlumsky

publishing-house assistants firsts

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

Anna Chlumsky

black-and-white tvs watches

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

Anna Chlumsky

show-business college shows

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

office kind looks

Day-to-day scheduling is always a conflict. You go, "Oh, I want to go to that awards show because when am I ever going to do that again?" But then you go, "Yeah...except this other thing is more important." It's more the micro day-to-day stuff that becomes a daily task as opposed to worrying too much about the career.

Anna Chlumsky

conflict important worry

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

Anna Chlumsky

acting reason school

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

Anna Chlumsky

good-movie adults girl

Supposedly I haven't changed.

Anna Chlumsky

i-havent-changed changed havens

There's a theory out there that if you're in a public profession you're fair game. I couldn't disagree with that idea more. Especially with children - half the time they don't choose to be in that profession. For people to objectify other people's lives - kids or not - I find very tedious and tiresome. People who have a craft, that's their job. Their job isn't to create fodder for other people who are bored.

Anna Chlumsky

kids children people

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.'

Anna Chlumsky

coffee order thinking

Kids are truthful by nature.

Anna Chlumsky

truthful kids

People have good and bad days.

Anna Chlumsky

good-and-bad bad-day people

As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.

Anna Chlumsky

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.

Anna Chlumsky

too-much acting taste

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

gold waiting mind

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!

Anna Chlumsky

growing-up school fall

I've been poked fun of throughout my career by fellow actors for my notes that I take. I have spiral notebooks that I carry with me on every project I do, and I take notes just so that if I have to relive a scene, if I have to go back, I know what I did.

Anna Chlumsky

notebook careers fun

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

Anna Chlumsky

treats idiot kids