Quotes By Anna Paquin

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

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

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

Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes, that's it.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

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.

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

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

I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

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 that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

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 have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

I like a challenge.

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

My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.

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.

Sookie is about as radically different from me and a lot of the work I've previously done as you could possibly come up with.

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

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

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

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

I really liked the idea of focusing on one thing for, hopefully, a long time to come. I also like the idea of a consistent lifestyle, as opposed to not really knowing where on the planet you're going to be at any given moment.

You find happiness where you find it.

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.

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 get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldn't trade it for the world.