Anna Paquin Quotes

There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again.

As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

'Blanche' opened a new door for me without really making me more famous. 'Blanche' was a risk, but that is the only thing that excites me in this profession. The knowledge that I am an actress who takes risks lifts my soul.

I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

When I started acting, I made a conscious decision that I wanted to be a character read and not a leading man. I didn't want to do the same thing again and again. I wanted to push and challenge myself. I find and embrace new and unique challenges in all mediums.

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.

That's what separates actors - I'll take any risk for a performance.

I want to do different kind of roles that people don't want to do.

I don't want to just make the safe, easy commercial films.

It's not fun for an actor to be pigeonholed in any way.

Being an actor, I feel I need to take up challenges and do different roles without thinking about whether the audience will accept me in those roles or not.

I feel if the Punjabi cinema is experimenting, I should also at least try and do roles which create a new identity with every film.

It feels great that with the film choices I have been making have been quite radical and different. I am glad they are commercially working.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

Sometimes the career you end up with has no logical connection to where you began.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

I have never shied away from experimental roles.