81 Quotes by 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.

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

I’m just living my life. I’m incredibly disciplined and I work incredibly hard. I show up for things on time, I do my homework, and I work my ass off. I’ve had a lot of luck, but I work really, really hard.

I’d really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I do gymnastics and ballet, and I’m very, very into the physically acrobatic end of sport.

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.

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.

We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn’t get our Twitter feed on that? I’m really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It’s really very romantic.

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.

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.