Quotes by Sarah Paulson

Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are not only at their job but also as a person they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.

If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.

'American Horror Story' is my home. It's the place I feel the most comfortable.

We're constantly, as human beings, trying to understand why we do what we do and how we got to wherever we find ourselves today. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to look back and go, 'I can't believe I spent one day with that person, much less two years.'

My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.

Anything is possible, and the truth is any human being at any given moment, no matter how good they are -- not only at their job but also as a person -- they're capable of anything, and it's not always a conscious thing.

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.

I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

I'm not interested in a character's goodness. I'm interested in what makes them human.

My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.

I like to go into an audition room, particularly when they think I'm not right for a part, and really fight for it. There's something so exciting and challenging about proving to yourself that you can pull it off.

I'm addicted to routine. I don't know if that's because I moved around so much as child -- by the time I was 12 years old, I had lived in about 10 different places. But I like going to the theater at a certain time.

If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

I started auditioning, and the first job I ever got was understudying Amy Ryan in 'The Sisters Rosensweig' on Broadway, directed by Daniel Sullivan. I was 18 years old.

When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.

The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.

I don't have children, but my work life is as important to me as anything could be. I've dedicated a lot of time and energy and years to it. Some might say some of my childbearing years to it. In and of itself, my work is like a child to me. That is my reality.

Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don't get to do that on television.

The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.

Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

I had a complicated home life, and my teachers, predominantly my theater teachers and my English teachers, were very dedicated to taking care of me in a particular way. And in doing so, I think I developed a very easy rapport with people older than myself.

I moved to L.A. and did a two-part episode of this British export show called 'Cracker.' I kissed Josh Hartnett. I think Josh Hartnett's first onscreen kiss was me, unfortunately.

My choices in life have been unconventional, and that's my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.

All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller.

To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.

Looking back is a way to sharpen the focus on the things you want to change in your life. I think there's something about nostalgia that really puts a fine point on the here-and-now, and that can be incredibly fascinating and interesting and engaging for the mind.

Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.

I am a person who is not mated.

I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.

It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I've only been to one concert in my life.

My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless -- by choice -- at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.

I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.

I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called 'Down with Love', in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.'

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.