Top 100 Anna Kendrick Quotes
#1. If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.
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#2. I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that.
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#3. Alas, I've tried to be honest, because honesty makes me feel less alone.
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#4. I have the advantage of being pretty small, so if I'm flying myself, I'm flying coach. To save the money. I just put in my headphones, and it's no big thing. I keep my head down, wear a hoodie or a hat - but sometimes not even that. I'm small. People miss me.
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#5. Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by forgetting I existed. Ah, the moral victory.
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#6. I never thought that tailoring was something that normal people did; I just thought that it was something that guys who had suits made of Italian silk depended on, and I wish someone had told me what a difference tailoring makes!
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#7. I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.
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#8. My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.
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#9. If there was just a little more time, or a little more money, or if you could just get through this one last rough patch, it would all be clear, it would all fall into place. It's an insatiable trap. And
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#10. Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage
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#11. You can't tell an audience to like a character. And I think the best way to get the audience on someone's side is to embarrass them.
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#12. I filmed seven movies in 2011 and I think that was a mistake. I pushed myself too hard and I want to be able to come to work each day and give 100 percent. I guess I found out what my boundaries are.
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#13. I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.
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#14. I really shine in a Taco Bell parking lot with a water bottle full of vodka, but I could work with this. After
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#15. If you think girls are supposed to object to sex until they find themselves incapable of resisting your magic penis, fuck you.
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#16. The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.
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#17. 'The Last Five Years,' we sang almost everything live. When we're in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point - it's not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live.
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#18. But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.
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#19. The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.
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#20. People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.
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#21. Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.
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#22. I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.
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#23. There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
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#24. I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.
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#25. I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'
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#26. When I have a big enough handbag to carry a little pair of booties with, I always do - those pointy Christian Louboutin heels are just no fun to walk around in.
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#27. I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong.
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#28. If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing.
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#29. That woman is all the colors of the rainbow and I want to roll around in her closet. She
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#31. The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.
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#32. Well, we can stay friends if you want. I know I'd like to. But I'll understand if you - " "No, I mean what happens right now. Like, how do you finish a breakup? Like . . . how does this scene end?" (Okay.
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#33. I'm glad I got to do 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are both shows that I just don't think I could have the stamina to do them eight times a week. I just have so much respect for the women who do these vocal roles eight times a week. They're so challenging.
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#34. Every time I talk to a fancy journalist and they ask what I do in my free time my scumbag brain goes 'say masturbate, it'll be hilarious'.
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#35. I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.
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#36. I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
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#37. Don't try to participate in anyone else's idea of what is supposed to happen in a relationship. You will fail.
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#38. The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.
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#39. I've always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people.
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#40. I gave up on being Nice. I started putting more value on other qualities instead: passion, bravery, intelligence, practicality, humor, patience, fairness, sensitivity. Those
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#41. If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?
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#42. I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now.
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#43. Couples, singles, gay, straight, cats, dogs, and well-trained lizards are welcome. No babies.
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#44. I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
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#45. Some bitter boys reading this might accuse me of "friend-zoning," but I'd like to say that even if a girl has misinterpreted a situation that someone else thinks was obvious, she does not owe her male friends anything.
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#46. I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.
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#47. 'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.'
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#48. I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.
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#49. Okay, I am happy with the way I look, but I have never, never, ever thought of myself as a 'pretty girl.' Honestly. When I read some of these scripts I'm sent, and they describe the heroine as 'incredibly beautiful,' I wonder why they sent it to me.
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#50. 'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.
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#51. People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on the fans. If you don't like 'Twilight,' don't buy a ticket.
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#52. When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
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#53. I used to exercise an hour every day - no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I'm trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.
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#54. I was eight years old at this point, and my mother had a brilliant plan: occasionally buy me a stupid-looking outfit, let me wear it, and I'd get it out of my system before I got to high school.
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#55. I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.
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#56. I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
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#57. I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.
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#58. I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
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#59. I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.
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#60. After we shot the first 'Twilight,' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it.
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#61. Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an off-Broadway back alley...that's just me. Starting four years from now.
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#62. Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.
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#63. It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'
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#64. Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it.
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#65. You listen to your favorite song just until you're almost getting sick of it, and then it's so fun to rediscover it after a couple of months.
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#66. There have definitely been more than a few moments in my life where I'm wondering where the next paycheck will come from and how I'm gonna pay rent.
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#67. An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
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#68. I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.
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#69. If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.
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#70. I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.
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#71. With any other movie, you're entering new territory, so it's quite different to be involved in something where it's the same characters, and the same people.
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#72. I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.
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#73. It would be fun to be a redhead ... you can get away with being, like, really volatile and fire-y because you're like, 'I'm just a redhead; what can I say?'
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#74. I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls.
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#75. I don't care for physical activity. I'm not sporty. I'm not very coordinated.
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#76. Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesn't go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didn't expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didn't have Twitter.
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#77. This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.
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#78. Self-doubt is healthy! Self-doubt keeps me in check!
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#79. Oh my god, I just made out with Legolas!' Again, I'm not going to name that actor, as I wish to respect his privacy
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#80. I rarely give advice - your personal growth will only make me look worse by comparison - but as a suggestion, find your most psychotic baby picture and have it on hand for those days when you want to throw in the towel. It is both joyful and effective.
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#81. I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do.
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#82. I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
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#83. ...linen is a fabric that wrinkles like Jack Nicholson's balls without Botox.
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#84. I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films.
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#85. Maybe we all have imposter syndrome and perpetually feel like our real life is right around the corner,
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#86. I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra MacDonald are like Beyonce to them. I'm sure the a cappella world has their own version of that, and that exists in every geeky subculture.
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#87. It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.
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#88. M. Night Shyamalan can't be stopped. And for some reason, neither can I. Nudity
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#89. My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
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#90. When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are.
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#91. Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, don't create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.
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#92. People send you stuff if you say you're interested in something. I have a tonne of body lotion. So I could mention I was interested in, you know, surfing, and some company would send me a surfboard.
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#93. So many people say they wish they could be young again. You couldn't drag me back to twenty-one. All the hiding, all the pretending, all the hanging out with people you don't actually like.
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#94. I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.
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#96. I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
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#97. I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.
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#98. I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.
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#99. To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
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#100. The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.
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