I guess I feel I’m masquerading as an adult when I don’t have the kind of friendships and routines that I thought you were supposed to have as an adult. It’s the ‘Friends’ lied to me! syndrome. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
I feel like you can’t get an audience to like your character if she’s actually cool, but you can if she’s trying to be cool and sometimes fails. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
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. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve always had volume on my side: the big-voice-in-a-small-package thing. I surprise people. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first ‘Pitch Perfect’ that I don’t think ever made it on-screen, so it’s not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
The music for ‘The Last Five Years’ is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
The Last Five Years,’ we sang almost everything live. When we’re in a convertible on the West Side Highway, there was no point – it’s not going to be usable sound. But any time we were indoors, we were singing live. Anna Kendrick Read Quote
