The September issue of Elle has a special twist: in honor of the magazine's 30th anniversary, they're rounding up quotes on what it's like to finish out your twenties and head into the next decade of life. Anna Kendrick is one of the actresses to sound off on the subject, and she did not hold back. We've gotten used to getting tons of laugh-out-loud moments from Anna, so it should come as no surprise that some of her quotes dish a heavy dose of humor. Read on to find out what she said, and then catch Keira Knightley's words on therapy and body positivity.
- On what being 30 means: "I guess I'll find out in a lot of ways. I started calling myself 30 when I turned 29. I feel really ready for it. I feel like in your twenties you have to put up with a lot of bullsh*t. I know you have to in your thirties as well, but you can always say, You know what? I'm 30-goddamned years old so I'm going to go home before 2 a.m. because I can. I'm excited for that."
- On her new motto: "I can't think of anything that wouldn't make me sound like a pretentious f*ckface. Maybe that should be my motto: Don't be a pretentious f*ckface."
- On the best advice she's ever received: "I remember when I was getting ready to perform at the Oscars with Neil Patrick Harris, I ran into James Cordon from Into the Woods, and I told him how nervous I was and he said, 'You have to enjoy yourself because the 13-year-old you would punch yourself if you didn't.' I try to keep that in mind. I think that's really great advice for everybody. To enjoy yourself in the good moments, and to push yourself in the hard moments."
- On the worst advice she's ever received: "I got some terrible advice when I was really young, which was to not have a back-up plan. It really is terrible advice but I followed it. I had this singularity of focus. I never got to the point where I ever considered seriously doing something else."
- On the secret to success: "I don't know. I don't really have a serious answer for that. I'm trying to think of a funny answer because so much of it is dumb luck and hard work and some kind of magical mixture of the two. If I had a secret to success, I'd make a lot of money writing a book about it."
- On what's next: "For the first time in a long time, I don't have my next film planned, which is a good feeling because I haven't had more than a couple weeks off in like three years. I'm hoping to take the time to actually live in my own house for a month or something. That would be really nice."
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