A biography for Anna Paquinhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.”
“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 still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.”
“Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.”
“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.”
“If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.”
“I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.”
“I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.”
“Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.”
“Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.”
“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 was honestly never a huge school person.”