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
The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.
My sister's a big karaoke person, and she's never been able to get me to do it.
I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.
If you get on a TV show that's successful, odds are that you're playing the same character for as many years as the show is running, which can be its own blessing, but it can also be a curse because you're playing the same thing and that can be tiresome.
I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.
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 like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.
I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.
I like that feeling in your brain when you've got seven things that you're holding in one moment-you heard that person cough, you heard that person laugh, you're also saying your line, you're also listening to the person who's talking to you.
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.
I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
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.
When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.