Sarah Paulson Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.’

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination – and bad for it, too.

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

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 am a person who is not mated.

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

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.

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