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 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.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.