It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
Anna ChlumskyFirst, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
Anna ChlumskyIt 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 ChlumskyThere'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