Anna Paquin Quotes

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

• You find happiness where you find it.

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

• 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.

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

• My s*xuality 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.

  Anna Paquin

• 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

• 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.

  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.

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

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

  Anna Paquin

• I’ve never really been one of those girls who’s scared of showing a bit of flesh.

  Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin (40)

Birth:	24th July, 1982
Nationality:	Canadian, New Zealander
Profession:	Actress, Producer

About

Anna Helene Paquin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Her first film was The Piano, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in March 1994 at the age of 11, making her the second youngest winner in Oscar history. She later appeared in a number of successful films, including Fly Away Home, She's All That, Almost Famous, and the X-Men franchise as Rogue from Marvel Comics. Paquin is also known for her role as Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series True Blood, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama in 2009. Paquin's family moved to New Zealand when she was four. She attended the Raphael House Rudolf Steiner School until she was eight or nine. Her musical childhood hobbies in New Zealand included playing the viola, cello and piano. She also participated in gymnastics, ballet, swimming and downhill skiing, though she did not have any hobbies related to acting.

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