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.
Anna Paquin

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

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

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

I like a challenge.
Anna Paquin

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
Anna Paquin


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.
Anna Paquin

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

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.
Anna Paquin

I was honestly never a huge school person.
Anna Paquin

I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
Anna Paquin

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
Anna Paquin

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

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.
Anna Paquin