Acting Is Pretending To Be

Acting Is Pretending To Be Someone Else.

I'm Anna Paquin. I'm Bisexual And I Give A Damn.

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.

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 Don't Think A Naked Body Is Particularly Shocking Or Interesting ... It's Not The Culture I Was Raised In. I Was Not Brought Up In The United States. I Don't Share The [attitude] That You Can Have Graphic Violence, But - God Forbid - You See Someone's Nipples.