Quotes by Anna Kendrick

People being tough with you doesnt mean theyre villains.

Lesson for young men: if you want your eventual wife to be excited about sucking your dick for forty years, dont create a generation of women who think enthusiasm about sex is a bad thing.

I think I need to become perfect all at once, so I keep getting overwhelmed and putting it off. I cant remember the last time that I didnt have something hanging over my head. There are usually about thirty to eighty things. Is that normal? Dont tell me. If its not, Im a jerk. If it is, thats super-depressing, and I know Ill just use this is normal as an excuse to procrastinate even more.

People dont have to do things by half measures because they arent getting paid for it. In fact, thats all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like its a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. Its populated with both adults and children, its 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!

People who grew up in major cities may wonder why the hell I would act like its a big deal to be unaccompanied in New York City at that age. Its populated with both adults and children, its 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!

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.

Having to fight for the thing you want doesnt mean you deserve it any less.

Wear the Spanx. You might not want to squeeze them over your ass in the morning, but when you see that mac and cheese at lunch (do it, you beautiful monster) youll be glad therere there, doing the lords work.

But heres the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.

I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.

I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.

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?

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightleys eyebrows.

Sometimes when I try to make jokes or have a sense of humor in interviews, it doesnt go over very well. But Twitter made my life easier in this way that I didnt expect. It would have taken probably 10 times as long for people to accept my voice and my sense of humor if I didnt have Twitter.

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.

I feel like you cant get an audience to like your character if shes actually cool, but you can if shes trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

I think Im trouble-adjacent. I remember hearing once that good girls dont get caught. I think thats 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.

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.

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when Im filming.