97 Quotes by Sarah Paulson

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.

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.

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.

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 think I was really nervous that I somehow didn’t feel right out in the world in that way.

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.

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.

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

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

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.