Anna Kendrick Biography & Quotes

“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.”

Truth Girl Power Anna Kendrick

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“It’s like how every guy I know has told me a story about going to Hooters and how the waitress seemed “grateful” to finally have a customer who was “cool and fun.” Definitely not bullshit!”

Men

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“People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. It's populated with both adults and children, it's a functioning metropolis, Kevin McCallister was only ten in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and that kid saved Christmas. Conversely, people from suburban areas act like my parents sent me wandering around the site of the Baby Jessica well, blindfolded and holding a flaming baton. So pick a side and prepare to judge me either way!”

Childhood Safety Adolescence Show Business City Suburbs

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“People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like it's a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. It's populated with both adults and children, it's a functioning metropolis, Kevin McCallister was only ten in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and that kid saved Christmas. Conversely, people from suburban areas act like my parents sent me wandering around the site of the Baby Jessica well, blindfolded and holding a flaming baton. So pick a side and prepare to judge me wither way!”

Childhood Safety New York City Adolescence Show Business

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“Sure, it will be hard, but all you need to be a writer is perseverance, a low-level alcohol dependency, and a questionable moral compass.”

Writing Humor

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“Activities will include, pretending to help in the kitchen, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and saying you're so full you're gonna throw up and then waiting ten minutes and getting more pie. Once the sun has been down for a couple of hours the Christmas season is technically upon us, so it's time for the first Harry Potter marathon of the year. Starting with film number three, because obviously, and ending with film five when the filthy casuals are allowed to go home. The hardcores can sleep at my place and in the morning we'll finish six, seven, and seven but where stuff happens. Pumpkin pie for breakfast.”

Harry Potter Thanksgiving Pumpkin Pie

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“If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it.”

Ifs Lying Guy Let Me

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“If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.”

Ifs Guy Red Flags Red Flags

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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.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Eye Film Environment Risk Worst Red Flags Frustrating Red Flags Frustrating Things

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“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.”

Thinking Way Character Sides Audience Best Way

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“I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.”

I Can Cooks Chocolate Sauce Flour Spicy Caramel Hazelnuts Torts

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“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.”

Feels Bigs Difficult Communication Constant

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“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.”

People Different Character Involved Territory Entering New Territory

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“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.”

Ifs Whole Doors Stores Checks Chapstick

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“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.”

Song Fun Months Couple Sick Your Favorite Favorite Song

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“I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Children Important Beautiful Lessons Disagreement Important Lessons

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“My mom was always a fan of just really elegant, sophisticated pieces. I mean we grew up in Maine, so we didn't have a lot of call for black tie or anything, but I think I definitely got that sensibility from her.”

Thinking Mean Black Pieces Fans Grew Mom Grew Up My Mom Ties Sophisticated Sensibility Elegant Maine Black Tie

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“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.”

Mean Enough Seems Film Crazy Industry West Dare Scary Music Industry Film Industry Wild West Wild Wild West

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“I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.”

Play Shows Lost Felt Awards Award Shows

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“I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.”

Men Silent Coffee

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“Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.”

Sometimes

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“I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'”

Thinking Adults Former Fetus

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“It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.”

Thinking Feelings Together Used Cute Temporary

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“Sometimes I think, I need to think before I speak. And then other times I think, I shouldn't leave the house or interact with people ever.”

People Thinking Needs Sometimes House Speak

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“We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.”

Should Watches Standards Gold Apples Launching Detection Gold Standard Douchebags Apple Watch

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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?"”

Thinking Looks Self Film Huge Conscious Ears Cameras Appearance Useless Angle Self Conscious Useless Life

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“I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.”

Crazy Humility West Humble Pitch Perfect

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“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.”

Thinking Years Remember Girl Caught Hearing Good Girl

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“'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.”

Thinking World Trying Actors Audience This World Incredibles Movie Camps Filmmaking Bizarre Rockets Validation Rocket Science

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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.”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Stills Seems Film Actors Couple Tendencies Limitation Movie Filmmaking Resentful

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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.”

Thinking Want Needs I Can Actors Can Do Cameras Movie Filmmaking

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“R.Pattz fever is a lot louder than George Clooney fever. The younger girls are a little louder.”

Littles Girl Fever

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“I had a confusing relationship with my Barbies, but I love trolls. I tortured my Barbies.”

Confusing Barbie Troll

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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.”

People Thinking Men Believe Games I Believe Stuff Doors Comfort Instinct Dinner Chess Opening These Days Gentleman Buying Good Man Chess Game Opening Doors

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“I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.”

Thinking Shock Confusing Notice Me

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“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.”

Years Firsts Two Hard Age Jobs Two Years

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“I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.”

Ifs Persons Fishes Steak

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“An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.”

Should Actors Humility Ambition

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“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.”

People Persons Matter Today Failing Planets Miles Gentleman Extras Extra Mile

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“When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?”

Firsts Shows Next Walks Cases Saws Week Noses Next Week Truman Truman Show

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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.”

People Ifs War Fun Fans Fairs Tired Hearing Rage Civil War Camps Twilight Tickets Renaissance I'm Tired

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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.”

Thinking Believe Kind Moments Spirit Rooms Heard My Friends Don't Believe Convince Creeps

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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.'”

Ifs Said Film Blogs Mtv This Is Me

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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.”

Ifs Stars Goal Walks Support Saws Lucky Series Twilight Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life Twilight Series

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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!”

Thinking Character Guy Football Fairs Bigger Casts Corners Silly Teenager Relax Hiding Pretending Throwing Twilight Around The Corner

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“I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.”

Needs Doe Drink Caffeine

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“I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.”

Way Feels Character Fall Elements Falling In Love Knees Uncomfortable Sympathetic Jerk I Fall In Love

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“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?”

People Knows Want Feels Kind Jobs Film Mystery Theater

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“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.”

Character Film Strong Female Excited Female Characters

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“I graduated from high school early so I could move to New York to do 'A Little Night Music' out of the New York City Opera.”

Littles School Moving Night Cities New York High School New York City Opera

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