Sarah Paulson Quotes

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

One creates oneself.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

I have lived life enough to know that I define myself.

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

If you're a caretaker, who are you when there's no one else to take care of?

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.