Anna Paquin Quotes

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.

There's nothing more exciting as an actor than getting to do something that you're not entirely sure that anyone would let you do, and getting to take a big jump in a completely different direction.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.

You find happiness where you find it.

Acting is pretending to be someone else.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.

I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.