Simply ANNA!

Simply ANNA!
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Friday, July 5, 2013

BEAUTY and BRAINS: that's Anna Kendrick

         After knowing a bit of who Anna Kendrick is especially on how she handles humor in a really entertaining way, I'm also taken by surprise that she in fact is good in saying words of wisdom. Indeed she is not just beauty and cuteness but also has brains.

Check out some of her brainy quotes:

"I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days"-Anna Kendrick


This attitude of hers impressed me the most, about being just contented of whatever is serve to her. "I'm the person who wouldn't send back food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish"- Anna Kendrick


"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


"I fall in love with characters when they've out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way"- Anna Kendrick

"I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones"- Anna Kendrick


"I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek"- Anna Kendrick


"My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming"- Anna Kendrick


"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


"The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George"- Anna Kendrick


"My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply"- Anna Kendrick


"People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people do what they like. I'm tired of hearing people rage on fans. If you don't like 'Twilight' don't buy a ticket"- Anna Kendrick


"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


"You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the 'Twilight' cast. He's the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn't him!"- Anna Kendrick


"Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist, but ambition seems really important"- Anna Kendrick


"After we shot the first 'Twilight' we organized our own wrap party. We really didn't know what this was going to be. Something like that can come at you unexpectedly, and you just have to try your best to deal with it"- Anna Kendrick

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"I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for the bad part and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now"- Anna Kendrick


"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 the films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking"- Anna Kendrick


"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


"I definitely think it exercises an interesting muscle, auditioning for bad parts and trying to figure out how to make it real. I don't know what I'm talking about now"- Anna Kendrick


"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
"I guess my silly dream is to be on 'Game of Thrones.' I don't think that I can do that, but that's my silly dream. And there are a lot of American comedies, particularly on NBC, that I would, I would love to do"- Anna Kendrick

"I heard people saying they were going to become millionaires by the time they were 25 - that's gross and obnoxious, but in California it's looked on as an asset"- Anna Kendrick


"PSA: Teens, teach your parents how to operate your phone's camera in case you run into an actor. I have seen too many relationships ruined"- Anna Kendrick

"I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'- Anna Kendrick



"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
 
"Big complicated sweater. If it's not difficult to get on, it's not a fashion"- Anna Kendrick

"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"- Anna Kendrick


"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"- Anna Kendrick

"I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character"- Anna Kendrick






 


"I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great"- Anna Kendrick


"I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends"- Anna Kendrick


"I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character"- Anna Kendrick


"I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It's not like I'm trying to make the right chess move. It's more just that personal thing where you get connected to something for so long and then you want to do something that's in opposition to that"- Anna Kendrick 


"I'm into 'The Walking Dead,' 'Shaun of the Dead,' obviously, and I've seen all the Romero movies. I am a classic zombie queen. And I love the White Walkers on 'Game of Thrones.' Weirdly, it wasn't until pretty late in life that I found my entry point into horror films"- Anna Kendrick 


"I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'- Anna Kendrick

"It's like an OCD thing, it's not as much something I enjoy. 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"- Anna Kendrick


"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"- Anna Kendrick


"The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not"- Anna Kendrick


"There will always be a part of me that wants to do a movie musical. I feel like you're doing yourself a disservice when you say something like that, because you never know if that thing is gonna come along and be right, but I'd be lying if I said that that wasn't true"- Anna Kendrick


"There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do"- Anna Kendrick


"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?'- Anna Kendrick


"Voiceover excited me and terrified me. I thought I was going to be really bad at it. It was so freeing and fun to not have to wait for 10 minutes between every setup. They just throw you a direction, and you just say it"- Anna Kendrick

"When I get recognized for 'Twilight,' it's usually a teenage girl, and they're usually really loud. So it certainly feels like I get recognized the most from that, but it could just be because of the nature of how vocal those fans are"- Anna Kendrick


"I think the fact that when I got this role every single person that I know asked if I get to kiss George Clooney shows how rare it is for a young woman to be in a film and be a lead, but not be a romantic lead- for her to be smart and interesting and have so many of her own problems and this incredible story, but have no story that involves romance or sex. It's so rare"- Anna Kendrick


 "An actor should always let humility outweigh over ambition"- Anna Kendrick


"I haven't really changed. I feel really lucky to be doing the work I'm doing, but everything else around me is basically the same. I still prefer sitting at home watching movies instead of going out to bars"- Anna Kendrick

"I'm so relieved. I get to be in Twilight and that's it. I get to be in it and be a part of it but I get to leave the house and live a normal life. I feel like I'm living this strange double-life because when I go home I get to do the same things I always have. I know that's not the case for Robert and Kristen and I know that's hard for them"- Anna Kendrick


"I was so stressed because I was more worried about my mum and brother having a time"- Anna Kendrick




Thursday, June 27, 2013

The small but terribly Awesome Anna Kendrick: All about Kendrick

         

          Honestly speaking, I've never heard Anna Kendrick's name before until I saw the Pitch Perfect movie, which by the way guys is really good and a funny movie. Well, that's where she got my attention there because of her strong appearance and of course the undeniable talent that she showed in that movie. I remembered her face, it was just so familiar but I just didn't know where I've seen her in the past movies that I saw. Curiosity bites me and by the help of google I saw her movie list and I was just surprised that of all her movies I just saw Twilight, only the first one, and I was like oh, what part or what role was she in Twilight? I just couldn't remember(I'm embarrassed, now that I'm a fan). And when I browsed it on youtube, I realized that it was the scene that I remembered the most, which was the canteen scene, where she introduced the vampire clan to Bella, I'm like oh, it was her all along, why didn't I noticed her before? I just thought maybe because she has this similarity to Bella's face especially with make-up on and I think that's why I ignored her.
Twilight: Canteen scene, Bella met new friends

          Ashamed that I only saw one movie of hers in which I know it was Anna Kendrick playing a certain role. Well, credits to her co-actors and actresses, they all did great in the movie that made the whole film entertaining and brought a lot of humor that give the audiences a good vibe and a good laugh.

          Well, the first interview that I saw in which she was the guest, was in CONAN Show, which was awesomely funny. Since then, I'm hooked and can't get enough of her hilarious and crazy interviews. I just can't stop smiling and laughing everytime I realized that what she just said was meant to be a joke or just playing bull****. Well in Conan she talked about that rap song that she sung from the Pitch perfect movie, entitled No Diggity and the producers wanted her to sing it in a recording studio and like do it for real and that she had to imagine that she had a penis just to make it through. You can watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crytzKqIXOQ. She also talked about her dirty Taco Bell secret in which she can't eat taco bell before midnight, it should be in the cover of darkness. She just order it on a drive thru and eat it on the parking lot. After that interview, I realized more that this girl wasn't afraid to speak up her mind or not even embarrassed sharing her story. I think she is a real person, I mean she's not pretending at all unlike other celebrities do, where they just answer questions safely. In other words this cute, pretty girl is not a phony.

           Then next, I saw her guesting on the Craig Ferguson show, well Craig himself was already funny plus he had a proper guest (that's according to him) who was a dork and that's Anna Kendrick. Well, what a perfect combination! They talked a lot of things, jokes and even silly stuff. Every time she guested in that show they somehow fancy doing the awkward pause at the last part of the interview which was really funny and...awkward. That moment was just epic for me!


          After that I saw her guesting on Jay Leno show where she wore this pretty dress, that she looked like a Barbie doll.


      Oh, she's just so adorable and cute and her face is pretty. She doesn't even look like 27, maybe like 17 or 18 years old. She even said she often times get carded, they think she was minor. She just has this distinctive smile, I can't really describe it, it's just her smile is pretty unique, like you can't see it often. "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".
She is just like the epitome of youthful beauty.
Look at Britanny' Snow's reaction, shocked, and look at Anna Kendrick's naughty smile. That's why I love her. You just don't know when is she gonna spill the joke in a serious question.

          I'm also amused on Britanny Snow's reaction when they were interviewed about their life at the boot camp for the acapella movie they were making. And Anna would answer the reporter's question with a joke and a funny lie in which the reporter had no idea that what Anna said was not even near from the truth, in other words the reporter bought the lie. You just can't tell that she's playing you because she was seriously answering the questions. You'll just realized it if she laughed at the end or her companion (Britanny Snow) would say 'that's not true' In which she(Britanny) knew what the truth was. I think that's what amuses Anna too, that she even tweeted on twitter that her favorite thing about twitter is reading the reaction of 60% of people reading her tweets doesn't know she's kidding, something like that. click here for the interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Viy5wuFYY

click here for her funny tweets http://thechive.com/2013/01/17/anna-kendrick-is-using-the-twitter-machine-hilariously-30-photos/

          That's what I love about her too, her dorkiness and she can hit jokes, bulls-eye, everytime she spills her craziness. That's what amuses me about her, that she can be pretty and cute and talented and at the same time have a lot of sense of humor and not boring. I also love her attitude of being contented of what is serve in the table, as what she said, "I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish."
 Well, if you just judge her by the way she looks, she's like an innocent, serious type of girl, like her face means Business, big time! But, behind all that is a real joker and a funny person who can always finds something amusing on something serious. "I guess I'm drawn to... I think, even when I read serious scripts, the moments that I connect to are the little glimpses of humor, because, you know, I think every script, no matter how serious it is, has bits of humor in it. Even "End of Watch" is really funny. So those are the moments where I can kind of see what I can do with it that's different, and I feel like that's the easiest way for me to get inside a character's head, is through the humor, like what sense of humor they have".
Emma Stone
         Actually, I also like Emma Stone and I'm a fan of her before Anna, because she's also funny and can be dorky at times especially when she's on SNL and also a good actress. But, you know I did not have the urge to google Emma before or even watch some of her videos. It just proves that there's something magnetic about Anna Kendrick and I think that's also because of her great personality and good talent as well as being a down to earth person. But I'm not saying Emma Stone is not like that, I'm sure she is. Maybe Anna has a lot of charisma. She's even always in the spotlight like she was the leading role in Twilight which eventually she just played Bella's friend Jessica Stanley and only a minor role. She's hardly in that movie, but people remembered her like she was the star. She also know the effect of fame and saw it on her Twilight co -stars Kristen Stewart and Robbert Pattinson, ("Sure, they're wealthy, but they're basically in a prison").

        Oh my God, I've seen her nominations the other day and I'm like, you can't really tell. This girl is small but terrible. Like she only stands 5 feet and a petite woman with angel-looking face but then she was acknowledged for being a good talent. She got all these nominations and won some of them, well even just get nominated is a great honor. Click here for the list http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/anna_kendrick/awards.html

         
         It's just so unbelievable to know or maybe she's just so blessed to still have a normal lifestyle in spite of her being famous and all. As what she said that she still can do things she used to do when she gets home (which is rare for a Hollywood actress)and she was often times being noticed by paparazzi or even to ordinary people. That she also felt sorry for Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart because she knew that after Twilight their lives were never be the same when they gets home. ("I'm so relieved. I get to be in Twilight and that's it. I get to be in it and be part of it but I get to leave the house and live a normal life. I feel like I'm living this strange double-life because when I go home I get to do the same things I always have. I know that's not the case for Robert or Kristen and I know that's hard for them".) "I rarely get recognized. It was always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else". " My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply". When she was asked, what's it like to be in the Twilight series? "It's a phenomenon that cannot be accounted for. It's really exciting. The thing about my involvement is that I get to have my cake and eat it too. I get to be part of the Twilight franchise and go on the ride when I feel like it. And I still have my real life. I can walk around and people don't speculate about my private life".
Watch her interview where she talks about herself feeling invisible from people at comic con and American Airlines flight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n_ye6IvStw

         Just imagine about the cup song that she popularizes from Pitch Perfect movie. It really wasn't her original and I think everybody knows that. Well, she just saw it on Reddit and thought it was cool, so she decided to spend her whole afternoon practicing the cup song just for fun! Yeah you heard it right, she still has time to do things that she really wanted to do even at home. Oh this girl is just so blessed!
         She even talks about she can't afford her cocaine addiction because it was an expensive habit and that she don't make much money as well as running a high class prostitution ring. Click here for the whole conversation http://www.crushable.com/2012/10/17/entertainment/anna-kendrick-interview-cocaine-prostitutes-joke-638/
         I mean she said all these stuff but her career did not go down because people know she was just making fun or having a good time. Not even have second thoughts of not talking it in front of the camera.

          She's just so awesome and adorable and I'm looking forward on seeing her movies in the future now that Pitch Perfect was a total hit. I just hope she will not turn into one of those child stars who became role models before they've gone bad and crazy or shall we say, nervous breakdown. She's been a child star and I hope she will not go in that direction.