Words matter. These are the best Sarah Paulson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No, I’m not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.
If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.
Being in a hotel room and watching ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ is one of my great joys.
‘American Horror Story’ is my home. It’s the place I feel the most comfortable.
I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it’s no mystery to me. I just didn’t have the skin for it.
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.
My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination – and bad for it, too.
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.’
I am a person who is not mated.
My choices in life have been unconventional, and that’s my business. But I do want to live responsibly and truthfully without hiding.
My sister’s a big karaoke person, and she’s never been able to get me to do it.
If my life choices had to be predicated based on what was expected of me from a community on either side, that’s going to make me feel really straitjacketed, and I don’t want to feel that.
To truly feel seen by another person makes you feel so peaceful.
I’ve never been on a show that’s run for more than a season.
There’s some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
I don’t feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, ‘Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?’ I don’t beat myself up. Instead, I say, ‘I’m so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.’
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 love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
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.
There’s a poignancy to being with someone older. I think there’s a greater appreciation of time and what you have together and what’s important, and it can make the little things seem very small. It puts a kind of sharp light mixed with a sort of diffused light on something.
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.
I’m interested in telling the character’s story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
I did an episode of ‘Law & Order,’ where I literally didn’t move my neck because I thought you couldn’t move your head on camera.
My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is ‘other’ makes it compelling.
