Anna Paquin Quotes

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Anna Paquin

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 24, 1982

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.

Anna Paquin

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.

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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.

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I like a challenge.

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

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

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

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

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I was honestly never a huge school person.

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You find happiness where you find it.

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

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

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

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When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

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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.

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

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

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We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

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

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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.

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