Quotes by Anna Kendrick - Page 3

There are times when I still feel like an actual toddler in a grown-up - well, semi-grown-up - body. But other times I can't wait to actually be 30, just so I can say things like, "I'm 30. I don't have time for that. F - k off!"
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Toddler
Waiting
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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!
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Italian
Silk
Suits
Me People Never
Depended
Normal People
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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?"
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Self
Thinking
Useless Life
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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?'
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Angle
Appearance
Self Conscious
Useless
Weird
Camera
Carry
Desperately
Ear
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Loud
Teenage
Teenage Girl
Twilight
Vocal
Just Be
Recognized
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Blah
Live Theater
Time Great People
People Say
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Movie
Couple
Filmmaking
People
Resentful
Thinking
Learning People Feel
Limitations
Tendency
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
War
Fun
Twilight
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
People
Theater
Want
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Civil War
Fans
Hearing
Rage
Renaissance
Twilight
War Tired People
Buy
Camp
Civil
Ticket
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Believe
Convince
Moments
Rooms
Thinking
Creep
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I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Laura
Natural
Actress
Oh
Gosh
Screen
Second
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Blessing
Late Bloomer
Traded
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It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Buy
Check
Door
Opened
Store
Tried
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I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Movie
Cameras
Filmmaking
Needs
Thinking
Mentally
Camera
Confines
Figuring
Second Nature
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The thing is, my appearance – that’s never been my moneymaker. I’m fine being small. I’m fine being all the things I am. And I’m happy I’m not supposed to be on the 50 Most Beautiful list all the time, because that would be super f**king stressful.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Kings
Beautiful
Lists
Would Be
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Honestly
Okay
Pretty Girl
Scripts
Wonder
Myself Beautiful Me
Myself Beautiful Look
Describe
Heroine
Incredibly
Sent
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I hate when people think you're broken because your parents are divorced. And I really reject the idea of staying together for the kids. If they're growing up in a house that's not healthy, it's better to know that's not the model of what marriage should be.
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Broken
Divorced
Staying
Reject
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Advantage
Being Pretty
Flying
Headphones
Money Myself Me
Miss
Big Thing
Coach
Hat
Save
Small People
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Crew
Naps
Wake Up
Go Home
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Beyonce
Musical
Musical Theater
Rocks
Stars
Subculture
Theater
Thinking
Stars World People
Version
Cappella
Exists
Foster
Geeky
Macdonald
Rock Stars
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Queens
Classic
Entry
Games
Horror
Walking
Walking Dead
White
Zombie
Life Love Movies
Game Of Thrones
Horror Films
Queen
Weirdly
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There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I'd be lying if I said that that wasn't true.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Disservice
Lying
Musical
Always Yourself Me
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I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Men
Believe
Buying
Chess
Comfort
Dinner
Doors
Gentleman
Good Man
Instinct
Opening
Stuff
Thinking
Inside
Rules
Above
Good Man Game
Game
Days
Holds
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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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Glad
Stamina
Vocal
Woods
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
College
Different Ages
Freshman
Justification
Noticing
Thinking
Years
Ages
Trust Long Me
Michelle
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Anna
Given
Wind
Admit
Choice
Stay
Easily
Pattern
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Falling In Love
Mistake
Philosophy
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Eye
Red Flags
Thinking
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Chess
Connected
Direct
Personal Thing
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Interviews
Sense Of Humor
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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.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Day To Day
Day To Day Life
Goal
Lucky
Series
Stars
Support
Twilight
Life Work Myself
Apply
Asked
Star
Saw
Walk
Word
Question
Recently
Strangest
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You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Bigger
Football
Hiding
Relax
Silly
Teenager
Throwing
Twilight
Cast
Clooney
Corner
Fair
George
George Clooney
Rigid
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I think I'm trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like. I skirted the stuff that other kids were doing because the idea of actually getting in trouble was not appealing to me, but I still wanted to have adventures.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Teen
Caught
Hearing
Stuff
Trouble
Good Me Remember
Adventures
Appealing
Good Girls
Other Kids
Teen Years
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I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'
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Film
Mtv
This Is Me
Blog
Quoted
Supposedly
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My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
New York
Running
Auditions
Broadway
Caught
Thinking
Young Age
Bug
Supporting
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I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You've got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, 'And it's okay if I wear nude tights with this?' to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Cold
Comeback
Designer
Dog
Fashion Show
Legs
Naked
Okay
Protect
Remember
Tights
Yourself
Go
Show
Every
Necessity
Far
Got
Wear
His
Looked
Saying
Season
Something
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I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Artist
Big Deal
Embarrassing
Fire
Itunes
Perception
Show Tunes
Strange
Thinking
Tunes
Arcade
Cocoon
Mix
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I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Comprehensive
Games
Misinterpreted
Talking
Thinking
Context
Interview
Magazine
Outlet
Quote
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While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Relate
School
Sensitivity
Solidarity
Surface
Wish
Adult
Life Your People
Adult Life
Anyone
Life People School
Find
Eventually
Feeling
Few
Few People
Leads
Level
Outsider
Picked
Point
Teased
While
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After doing 'Pitch Perfect,' I didn't expect to do other musicals, but then I was offered 'The Last Five Years' and 'Into the Woods,' which are two of the greatest pieces of theater that I can think of. So obviously I wasn't going to be like, 'Oh I'm trying to really stay away from musicals right now, so thanks, but I'll pass.'
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Thanks
Woods
Pitch
Musicals
Offered
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As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.
Anna Kendrick / Actress
Childhood
Parent
Real
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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. I would have been thrilled if guys were interested in me because of my boobs! Similarly, I think I’m lucky that I’ve never had a crisis about whether the only reason I’m successful is because I’m crazy hot. It’s not something that crosses my mind.
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Mom
Crazy
Teenager
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