Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
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
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
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
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
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
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
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
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
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson

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.'