Anna Chlumsky Quotes

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

I came out of my shell in college.

I struggled with my confidence a lot.

Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest.

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

I was terrified to go solo. It's lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.

I finally stopped worrying what people would think. I found out that almost everybody has some secret, some dark fear that if people knew this about them they wouldn't like them anymore, or would look down on them.

I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.

Coming out was painful, but life got so much better for me.

You have to get over being shy, and just be comfortable with yourself, and I think that for me, if I'd stayed in a small town, I'd be a different person.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.