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

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Anna Chlumsky
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 3
Film Actor
Film Actress
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Anna M. Chlumsky
Anna Maria Chlumsky
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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.
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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.
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Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal.
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People have good and bad days.
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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.'
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As actors we're supposed to be our character's advocate.
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When I graduated from college I thought I was over with show business and was pursuing other things.
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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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A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.
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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.
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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.
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I pray every night. I just talk to God and I can go to sleep. I don't worry anymore.
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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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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.
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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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I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.
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Kids are truthful by nature.
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First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
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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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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.
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