Anna Chlumsky Quotes

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

I need something to fall back on if fame doesn't work. I'll have to become an economist or something.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

That's why you went to school, because you realize that, being a professional athlete, there's a good chance you're not going to make it. You need an education, that's why for me, it was such an important decision to go to college and further my education to provide me a safety net in case this didn't work out.

I have a backup plan. Everybody should have a backup plan. I am a banker. The day you all get bored of me and don't want to watch my films, I will go back to banking.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.

So, in a way I was hedging and saying that if the Olympic stuff doesn't work out at least I can be a lawyer.

I was at the mercy of somebody else to just give me a job in the years after 'Boy Meets World' ended, whereas if I had gone to college and had when a Plan B, and it was something else that I loved, I could've walked away at any point.

My goal was to always get my degree. Once I did that, I thought I could pursue any other passion because I had something to fall back on if I needed it.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

Education lays a strong foundation. I was keen on films, but my mother insisted on me finding all about the line I was planning to take. I am into films but I know my Plan B is ready, just in case.

Snowboarding is a huge part of my life, but I also feel like it's important to have a plan B or a back-up plan for after my career because I can't snowboard for my whole life competitively.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

You can't eat straight A's.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

Nation’s that don’t invest in the future tend not to do well there.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.

To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.