Skills are expensive in Africa, best people are on American salaries.
I'm Anna Paquin. I'm bisexual and I give a damn.
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
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.
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 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.
One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century. . . has taken place via globalization.
I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
There is no trusting appearances.
Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind. " We're at that sort of turning point in human history.