Anna Kendrick famous quotes

An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Ambition #Humility #Actors

I was at awards shows and felt really lost so it was good to play someone who was really lost.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Awards #Play #Lost

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

#Football #Teenager #Silly

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Crazy #Mean #Scary

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

#Thinking #Confusing #Shock

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Mom #Mean #Thinking

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

#Believe #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Beautiful #Children #Mean

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Song #Couple #Fun

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

#Doors #Checks #Stores

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Character #People #Different

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Communication #Bigs #Difficult

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

#Chocolate #Sauce #Flour

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Character #Thinking #Way

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

#Eye #Thinking #People

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?
-- Anna Kendrick

#Jobs #People #Want

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Strong #Character #Female

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#New York #Moving #School

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Fans #Marathon #Lord

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Brother #Book #Kids

I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'
-- Anna Kendrick

#Thinking #Adults #Fetus

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

#Sometimes

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Mom #Crazy #Teenager

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Falling In Love #Character #Elements

I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Doe #Needs #Drink

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Jobs #Years #Two

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

#Steak #Fishes #Persons

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#People #Gentleman #Matter

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

#Noses #Next #Saws

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

#Fun #War #Twilight

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

#Stars #Twilight #Goal

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.'
-- Anna Kendrick

#Mtv #Film #This Is Me

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

#Believe #Thinking #Rooms

I shouldnt leave the house or interact with people ever.
-- Anna Kendrick

#People #House

Can we drop the pretense of Presidents Day and just call it I needed a long weekend because Valentines Day is garbage
-- Anna Kendrick

#Valentines Day #Weekend #Long

People who care about celebrity babies are creepy. What will her baby look like?! A baby. Youve seen a baby right? Itll look like that.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Baby #People #Creepy

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Crazy #Successful #Thinking

The most common thing that I get is, ‘Am I the only one who doesn’t think that Anna Kendrick is pretty? And youre like, ‘No, you’re not the only one. Arguably, all of the boys in my high school agree with you.’
-- Anna Kendrick

#School #Boys #Thinking

If I die unexpectedly can everyone just do the right thing and pretend I was a way better person than I am?
-- Anna Kendrick

#Way #Better Person #Persons

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

#Lying #Guy #Let Me

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

#Guy #Flags #Red

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Cute #Thinking #Feelings

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Thinking #People #House

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

#Apples #Gold #Douchebags

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

#Thinking #Self #Cameras

I'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Crazy #Humble #Humility

I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Feels

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Fighting #Thinking #Matter

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

#College #Thinking #Years

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Pay #Next #Wonder

Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Pranks

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Phones #Understanding #Phone Calls

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?'
-- Anna Kendrick

#Writing #Trying #Next

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Thinking #Rocks #Fans

I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Coffee #Men #Silent

I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Crazy #People #Age

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

#Running #New York #Thinking

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

#People #Want #Theater

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

#Queens #Games #White

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

#Thinking #Talking #Games

My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Kids #Parent #Age

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

#Beautiful #Kings #Would Be

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.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Humble #Ambition #Humility

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

#Falling In Love #Philosophy #Mistake

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'.
-- Anna Kendrick

#Brain #Fancy #Scumbags

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

#Artist #Thinking #Fire

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

#Stars #Thinking #Rocks