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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

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Anna Kendrick
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: August 9
Actress
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Portland
Oregon
Anna Cooke Kendrick
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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.
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If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
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This isnt the time to make hard and fast decisions, this is a time to make mistakes. Take the wrong train and get stuck somewhere. Fall in love, a lot. Major in philosophy, because theres no way to make a career out of that. Change your mind and change it again, because nothings permanent.
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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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The most frustrating things is when you read something that has so much potential, but there are other little red flags where you think, I don't know that I would see eye-to-eye with the people making this film. And that is the worst environment to enter, and absolutely not worth the risk.
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I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
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I like my men like I like my coffee. Silent.
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If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag.
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I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.
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