Anna Kendrick Quotes

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

It's kind of fun to hear that other people deal with the same kinds of issues that you do.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

Everything is an open book. I don't speak on other people's hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I'm going to talk about it. That's what my fan base appreciates the most. I'm universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

A lot of the albums that I've been really into are like, 'Oh man. That doesn't make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I'm super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.'

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like about me. They can reach out and touch me. I wouldn't give it up for anything.

The more you allow yourself to be vulnerable, the more people will be able to relate and learn from you, because we're all human.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

I want people to be able to relate to me and the trials and tribulations and struggles that I go through.

Going to school, sort of not realising that caring about things was going to make me stand out and make me weird, and I think also being a redhead and being tall, bigger than the other kids... Anything that makes you different at school makes you a target.

If I can show people how vulnerable and how flawed I am, maybe others will relate.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

I think humor is a really important way of creating solidarity - like, through humor you can make people realize that certain situations, where they thought they were alone, are actually shared by everyone.

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

I think everyone can feel like an outsider. I know I have. I've always felt like one.

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.