I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

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

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

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

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

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 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.

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

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.

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

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.