Anna Paquin

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.

If I don't do laundry today, I'm gonna have to buy new clothes tomorrow.

Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.