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When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
Anna Chlumsky
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Anna Chlumsky
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 3
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Anna M. Chlumsky
Anna Maria Chlumsky
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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.
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It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
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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.
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A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
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Kids are truthful by nature.
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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.
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I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.
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I guess it's nice to know I still resonate in people's minds.
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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!
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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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Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
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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.
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