People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair bl….

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 g….

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

Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people. But it's really not. When its a love scene with someone you actually l….

I just like the idea of getting to be my own boss, in a sense. Getting to decide what I want to do. Though it's also really nice to have no responsib….

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 ….

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 n….

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 inte….

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….

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

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

I was honestly never a huge school person..

Acting is pretending to be someone else..

I don't think a naked body is particularly shocking or interesting ... It's not the culture I was raised in. I was not brought up in the United State….

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 tak….

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..

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 ….

There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is us….

I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world..

None of the characters I`ve played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn`t be acting..

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..