Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.
-Sarah Paulson
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
-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.
-Sarah Paulson
Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
-Sarah Paulson
I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can’t be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.
-Sarah Paulson
I am a person who is not mated.
-Sarah Paulson
There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.
-Sarah Paulson
My great love is the stage because I do feel like it’s the place where, if you’re lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don’t mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you’re playing.
-Sarah Paulson
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.
-Sarah Paulson
I played a lesbian reporter in 1964, who was incarcerated, and ended the series as a 75-year-old woman. And then, I was a witch blinded by acid who became the Supreme, and took my mother’s energy and life, so that I could live and she would die. And then, I was conjoined twins. And then, I played a heroin addict.
-Sarah Paulson
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.
-Sarah Paulson
I could feel my body temperature – I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, “How did that come out of me?”
-Sarah Paulson
I just don’t feel that we’ve traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something’s about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that’s what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we’re on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.
-Sarah Paulson
I learned, having played Marcia Clark, what the value of that is in your life because it can affect everything, every choice you make, the way you deal with a stranger on the street, or your best friend or lover. It’s a powerful thing to know yourself and to have the commitment and the courage to let that be your guide.
-Sarah Paulson
I have friends say, “Don’t you want to have a little you?” The jury’s still out on that for me. I don’t have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I’ve worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn’t be of any less value. It can’t be because it’s what my life is, and I don’t want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all.
-Sarah Paulson
I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I’ll never forget it.
-Sarah Paulson
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.
-Sarah Paulson
I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It’s almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.
-Sarah Paulson
I’m interested in telling the character’s story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
-Sarah Paulson
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.
-Sarah Paulson