Anna Paquin

Actress

1982-07-24

Anna Paquin is a New Zealand actress born in Canada who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Piano at age 11. She is known for film work including The Piano and The Irishman and for starring in the HBO series True Blood. She holds New Zealand and Canadian citizenship.

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