Anna Paquin Quotes
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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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Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
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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.
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I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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While I have always, felt like an outsider, it's because of the professional choices I have made, so it's not like I am planning to throw myself a giant pity party.
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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.
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Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.
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I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.
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One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
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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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Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.
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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.
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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.
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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 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.
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I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
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Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
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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.