Anna Paquin Quotes
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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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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 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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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.
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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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Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
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If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
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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.
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There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives.
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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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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.
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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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I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh.
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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.
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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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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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I was honestly never a huge school person.