Anna Paquin Quotes

I've become a writer, an actor, producing films, and having a TV show. I'm pretty successful and proud of it.

I have had such a satisfying career; I've gotten to do so many amazing things as an artist.

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she's famous enough to have some power, but not so famous she has to deal with people buzzing around her life.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.

I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I used to say that it won't be until I'm 40, 50, 60 years old, still working consistently, will I be able to look back on my career and say, 'Wow, I have been successful.'

It's a different world now. Guest-starring on a TV show is not some indication that things aren't going right anymore.

I've always known that I wanted to do something in entertainment and fashion.

In this industry, you are as good as your last hit.

I feel very, very lucky to have been involved with a project that's gone on as long as 'The Closer' has. You really don't get to do that in this profession.

I started doing visual effects for many years, and after that, I became an actor.

'Bigg Boss' is the biggest show in the world, and I'm sure anyone would want to host it, but not me.

For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up on the 'Law & Order' TNT promo spot, he thought, 'Wow, my son has made it.'

Most of us got jobs right after 'The Larry Sanders Show' because of 'The Larry Sanders Show.' I know that for a fact for myself.

I'm confident about my stint with politics. But I won't leave acting, one, because it brings me my daily bread, and second, I realized that whatever little extra recognition I have today, it's thanks to my acting career.

My dream job growing up was always to be an artist. It wasn't even that I would be a rapper or singer; I just knew I would be a public figure.

I want to do amazing roles fit for my age in 30 years. I'm sure I'll be less popular and have less offers then, but I think I'll be able to do act well for my age at the time.

I think it's rare to get on a show that lasts.

I am the only lead actor on Indian TV who has been part of a popular show for eight years. It's a record.

I feel like I might be a designer or stylist - or a director because I have always been super interested in cameras and editing.