Quotes from Anna Paquin

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

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.

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

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.

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

You find happiness where you find it.

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

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You find happiness where you find it.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

I was honestly never a huge school person.

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

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

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.

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.