Anna Chlumsky

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

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.

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.'

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

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!'

My family and school life are important to me.

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

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.

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.

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.

Show business got really tainted for me.