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Acting is pretending to be someone else.

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Anna Paquin
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: July 24
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Anna Helene Paquin
Pretending
Acting
Else
Someone

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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.
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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.
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People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.
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We do ritualistic animal sacrifice. We host orgies on our trampoline, every other Sunday. You didn't get our Twitter feed on that? I'm really sorry! And then, every once in awhile, we run through the city and drain people and drink their blood. It's really very romantic.
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Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!
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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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I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
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You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.
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I'm so organised. I never screw up. I've done it maybe twice before. I check my calendar seven times a day.
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I just like the idea of getting to be my own boss, in a sense. Getting to decide what I want to do. Though it's also really nice to have no responsibility whatsoever, outside of being an actor, and have everyone else be worried about all the details.
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Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.
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I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
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It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind.
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I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.
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There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone.
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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.
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I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.
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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.
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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.
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