Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin
Anna Helene Paquinis a Canadian-born New Zealand actress. Born in Manitoba and brought up in Wellington, New Zealand, Paquin studied at Hutt Intermediate School and the Wellington Girls' College in New Zealand before moving to Los Angeles during her youth where she studied at Windward School and went on to complete a year at Columbia University before leaving post-secondary to focus on her acting career. As a child, she beat 5000 candidates for the role of Flora McGrath in Jane...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth24 July 1982
CityWinnipeg, Canada
CountryCanada
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. Most people don't have careers until they're adults.
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
I like hiding somewhere, like, say on a bus street in a doorway, and taking pictures without people knowing - which sounds really creepy....You get some of the most interesting pictures because people are walking past not realising you're there.
Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people? But it's really not. 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.
My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about. There's a lot of prejudice toward us but the more people talk about it, the less of a big deal it will be. And that will be better for everyone.
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 doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.
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.
The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.
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.
These are unusually mature, complex characters. They do bad things for their own reasons, but that doesn't make them morally bad. In fact your heart breaks for these people.
If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.
I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.