Anna Chlumsky Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Waiting, Mind, Gold

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• 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

  Acting, Too Much, Taste

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• 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, Fun, Careers

  "EMMYS Q&A: Anna Chlumsky Of ‘Veep’ On Playing It Straight". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. June 6, 2014.

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• The big difference with the recognition is that when I go on an audition, I don't feel like they're testing my abilities as much as they're just seeing if it's a fit. So that's nice.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Nice, Differences, Goes On

  "EMMYS Q&A: Anna Chlumsky Of ‘Veep’ On Playing It Straight". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. June 6, 2014.

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• 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

  Character, Responsibility, Choices

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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

  Worry, Important, Conflict

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm very happy to make specific choices (as an actor), (but) you can't be married to them because you never know when the writers are going to be like, "By the way, you have no brothers, you have a sister."

  Anna Chlumsky

  Brother, Choices, Actors

  "EMMYS Q&A: Anna Chlumsky Of ‘Veep’ On Playing It Straight". Interview with Christy Grosz, deadline.com. June 6, 2014.

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

  Anna Chlumsky

  Jobs, People

  "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Show business got really tainted for me.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Shows, Show Business, Tainted

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• Kids are truthful by nature.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Kids, Truthful

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• 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.

  Anna Chlumsky

  Children, Fun, People

  "‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky Talks TV Politics, Working With Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Still Being ‘My Girl’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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

  Anna Chlumsky

  Sports, Watches, Affair

  "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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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

  Cute, Kids, Adults

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• 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, Thinking, Order

  "‘Veep’ Star Anna Chlumsky Talks TV Politics, Working With Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Still Being ‘My Girl’". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• 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

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