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

#age #amazing #anecdotes #constantly #fabulous

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

#i #i feel #i feel like #image #like

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

— Anna Paquin

#boring #characters #i #like #me

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

— Anna Paquin

#committed #country #crime #day #every

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

#come #could #different #done #i

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

— Anna Paquin

#blood #distress #her #kill #someone

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

— Anna Paquin

#done #get #lot #people #stubborn

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

— Anna Paquin

#anything #few #films #happy #happy people

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

#anyone #big #completely #different #direction

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

#accents #apartment #big #books #had