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 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!

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.

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

You must not be worried about your belly but worry about your soul

Life wants you to know that people are more important than things.

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Great armies are nothing but a collection of weakness.

And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle.

Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

Trust is probably the intangible, and cultivated of all characteristic.