Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick is an American actress and singer. She began her career as a child actor in theater productions. Her first prominent role was in the 1998 Broadway musical High Society, which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. She made her film debut in the musical comedy Camp...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth9 August 1985
CityPortland, ME
CountryUnited States of America
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.
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.
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.
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.
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?
If a guy was like, 'Let me serenade you,' and it was bad, and I had to lie about it - can't have it.
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?'
Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.
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 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'm so humble it's crazy. I'm like the Kanye West of humility.
'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.
I like to think of myself less like 'an adult' and more like a 'former fetus.'