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

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

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.

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

Sometimes the burden of love is heavier than a heavy heart

I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.