Sarah Paulson

Sarah Paulson
Sarah Catharine Paulsonis an American actress. After beginning her acting career on stage, she starred in the 1990s television series American Gothicand Jack & Jill. Paulson later appeared in comedy films such as What Women Wantand Down with Love, and had dramatic roles in films such as Path to Warand The Notorious Bettie Page. From 2006 to 2007, Paulson played the role of Harriet Hayes in the NBC comedy-drama series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, for which she received...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth17 December 1974
CityTampa, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
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.
I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.
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'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.
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.
To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.
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.
If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.
I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.
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.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
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.