Anna Kendrick Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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• I don’t usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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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• An actor should always let humility outweigh ambition.

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• 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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Anna Kendrick (54)

Birth:	9th August, 1985
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Anna Kendrick was born in Portland, Maine. She is an American actress and singer. She rose to international fame after her performance as Natalie Keener in Up in the Air, for which she received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress. She played Dinah Lord in the Broadway musical High Society, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Her other notable roles include Fritzi Wagner in Camp, Jessica Stanley in The Twilight Saga, Stacey Pilgrim in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Beca Mitchell in Pitch Perfect, and Janet in End of Watch.

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