"My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from..." — Anna Kendrick

As an actress, you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood.

I do admit that I've never been one to fit in easily to any given pattern. It's not my choice. It's just the way I am. So if the characters I wind up playing are all a bit different, it must be because that's the way I like it. Anna Kendrick is different, and she's going to stay that way.

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.

There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.