Quotes by Anna Paquin

About Anna Paquin:

Anna Helene Paquin 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, The Squid and the Whale, 25th Hour 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.
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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

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 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

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

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 reb...

Anna Paquin

You find happiness where you find it.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.

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

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

Anna Paquin

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

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

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

Anna Paquin

Author Bio

  • NameAnna Paquin
  • DescriptionCanadian-born New Zealand actress
  • BornJuly 24, 1982
  • CountryCanada; New Zealand
  • ProfessionActor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actress