Anna Paquin
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• “Call me biased, but I love everything that [the Piano costar] Holly Hunter does. I think she’s brilliant in Saving Grace. She’s just so believeable– even when she is a drugging, drinking slightly promiscuous cop, you care about her.”

• “I have a pink Hello Kitty Retro Crusier with a bell and wicker basket, and it’s my favorite thing. I just learned to ride recently. I guess because I was the youngest of three and my parents were really busy, they just assumed that I already knew. Also, we lived on a hill.”

• “When I first started listening to Fiona Apple, I was a teenager, and the tortured, angsty thing was why I loved her so much. But when I saw her last summer in New York, she seemed happy, which was kind of awesome. It’s nice when musicians you like transition out of phases along with you.”

• “I am really hooked on Mad Men. I love that it’s a period show because people are smoking and drinking and acting exactly as they would have in 1960. The whole world is captured with such subtlety, and all the girls are gorgeous. It makes you want to wear pencil skirts and high heels and possibly even a girdle.”

• “I’m living in Venice, California, now, and everyone here either surfs or skateboards. I’m afraid of sharks, so there’s something a little frightening about dressing up like a seal and going in the ocean. I got an Arbor longboard instead, although I massively wiped out a few weeks ago, so that’s made it hard to get back on it.”

• “I absolutely love Martha Wainwright’s voice. I just got to hear her this year. A friend e-mailed me “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole,” and then I desperately needed to hear more, so I downloaded the whole album. It’s amazing to me someone can come up with such, um, meaningful words.”

• “I had nightmares about Silence of the Lambs for years. That’s my ultimate scare-you-senseless movie. I was probably 16 when I saw it, and no one else was around. I didn’t get off the couch. I just stayed there, huddled up, hoping that some one would come home so my ridiculous imagination would stop. I’m a big, big wimp.”

• “I am not embarrassed about any of my music and that includes Pussycat Dolls. It’s mostly a gym thing–music that is fast and poppy is good to run to–but maybe I listen to it really loudly if no one’s home and I’m cleaning my house.”