Top 100 Anna Kendrick Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Anna Kendrick

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Anna Kendrick

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Anna Kendrick

56. “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

57. “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

58. “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

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

— Anna Kendrick

60. “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

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

— Anna Kendrick

62. “I have a small stroke anytime someone asks to use my laptop; I only use that thing to look for porn and the definitions of words I should already know.”

— Anna Kendrick

63. “As Sondheim said, Nice is different than good. Do you need to do whatever you’re told to be a nice person? Maybe. Do you need to do whatever you’re told to be a good person? Of course not! Man, woman, personal, professional – some people have a skill for persuading you the best thing you can be is obedient. A.”

— Anna Kendrick

64. “Having to fight for the thing you want doesn’t mean you deserve it any less.”

— Anna Kendrick

65. “Oh my god, I just made out with Legolas!′ Again, I’m not going to name that actor, as I wish to respect his privacy.”

— Anna Kendrick

66. “M. Night Shyamalan can’t be stopped. And for some reason, neither can I. Nudity.”

— Anna Kendrick

67. “It’s not that deep down I want someone to “take care of me,” it’s that I’m exhausted, and occasionally overwhelmed by self-doubt. I’m steering the ship, but I don’t know what I’m doing. None of us do. But it would be so nice to believe that someone out there did, and that maybe they could take the wheel for a little while. It’s a seductive feeling. It would be great if it were real. But I guess I’ve got to count on myself. Which is not great news.”

— Anna Kendrick

68. “If there was just a little more time, or a little more money, or if you could just get through this one last rough patch, it would all be clear, it would all fall into place. It’s an insatiable trap. And.”

— Anna Kendrick

69. “I love rules and I love following them. Unless the rule is stupid. And yes, I have felt qualified, no matter my age, to make that determination. Scrupulous people don’t enjoy causing trouble, but they can be defiant as hell.”

— Anna Kendrick

70. “This was inspired by my pediatrician, a relatively young man whom I called Dr. Handsome. I had assumed this was because his name was Dr. Hasen or Dr. Branson, but I recently found out his name was Dr. Ritger, so I guess I should have just died at age four when I decided to call my physician Dr. Handsome without so much as a pun to justify it.”

— Anna Kendrick

71. “I am not like these people. I don’t know what I’m doing here. And it comforts me to know that I felt that way as a child, too. Maybe that should make me feel worse, but it makes me calm and resolved. I’ve been prepared to be an outsider most of my life.”

— Anna Kendrick

72. “I’ve still got stuff to work on. If a guy can convince me he has the answers or a better plan than me, I will follow him anywhere. I’ve fallen for it more than once. It’s not easy to pull off, because I happen to think most people are idiots, but if you can do it, I’m in trouble.”

— Anna Kendrick

73. “Alas, I’ve tried to be honest, because honesty makes me feel less alone.”

— Anna Kendrick

74. “I thrive in structure; I drown in chaos. I love rules and I love following them. Unless that rule is stupid.”

— Anna Kendrick

75. “I’ve seen you on meth?!” “I would say, for the last year, you’ve only seen me on meth.” I’m the biggest idiot on the planet.”

— Anna Kendrick

76. “So many people say they wish they could be young again. You couldn’t drag me back to twenty-one. All the hiding, all the pretending, all the hanging out with people you don’t actually like.”

— Anna Kendrick

77. “I realized that modern flirting was essentially just being mean while smiling.”

— Anna Kendrick

78. “I thrive in structure. I drown in chaos.”

— Anna Kendrick

79. “I would describe the size and style of our vessel, but I don’t know anything about sailing, so I’m trusting you to picture a boat.”

— Anna Kendrick

80. “Self-doubt is healthy! Self-doubt keeps me in check!”

— Anna Kendrick

81. “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.”

— Anna Kendrick

82. “Ninety percent of the people I’ve worked with who are disruptive or lazy or unskilled or addicts or likely to throw a tantrum are men. Ninety percent of the ones who get called “difficult” are women.”

— Anna Kendrick

83. “My handwriting as an angsty teen was appalling, yet somehow better than it is now.”

— Anna Kendrick

84. “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.”

— Anna Kendrick

85. “People being tough with you doesn’t mean they’re villains.”

— Anna Kendrick

86. “Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by forgetting I existed. Ah, the moral victory.”

— Anna Kendrick

87. “I would love it if we could limit my red carpet topics to my favorite colors, what sound a duck makes, and my thoughts on McDonald’s All-Day Breakfast – blessing or curse?”

— Anna Kendrick

88. “With every birthday, I have stupidly expected to feel different only to discover that I’m still me: tragically lazy and childish.”

— Anna Kendrick

89. “That woman is all the colors of the rainbow and I want to roll around in her closet. She.”

— Anna Kendrick

90. “Couples, singles, gay, straight, cats, dogs, and well-trained lizards are welcome. No babies.”

— Anna Kendrick

91. “The trickiest parts were the constant assurances that I was having a great time. I’m not an idiot. I knew what was happening was positive, it just got... disorienting. I don’t mind hard work – I love a challenge! – but pretending everything is wonderful when it’s not makes me feel mentally ill.”

— Anna Kendrick

92. “I’ve also now been around enough people who have a low opinion of anyone who’s creative in a non-professional realm to know that that’s ugly and ignorant. People don’t have to do things by half measure because they aren’t getting paid for it. In fact, that’s all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.”

— Anna Kendrick

93. “By fifth grade, I cracked a major development in strategy. I needed to get boys to talk to me. I wasn’t pretty, but I could make them like me through the magic of conversation, or at least trick them into revealing some actionable knowledge and go from there.”

— Anna Kendrick

94. “It’s like, it’s like I have a different kind of heart... sometimes I’ll be at work or a party, and get that same feeling: ‘I am not like these people, I don’t know what I’m doing here’ and it comforts me to know that I felt that way as a child too... I’ve been prepared to be an outsider most of my life.”

— Anna Kendrick

95. “I was eight years old at this point, and my mother had a brilliant plan: occasionally buy me a stupid-looking outfit, let me wear it, and I’d get it out of my system before I got to high school.”

— Anna Kendrick

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

— Anna Kendrick

97. “It took an older man saying point-blank “I like giving you advice” for me to realize that yes, that’s the bit you like. Not being helpful to me, but the sound of your authority reverberating in the ears of a younger woman.”

— Anna Kendrick

98. “I suppose I should try to find a balance, but that seems harder.”

— Anna Kendrick

99. “I think self-doubt is healthy. And having to fight for the thing you want doesn’t mean you deserve it any less.”

— Anna Kendrick

100. “Don’t try to participate in anyone else’s idea of what is supposed to happen in a relationship. You will fail.”

— Anna Kendrick