Sarah Paulson Quotes

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

That's one of the most important things about acting is not just when you're speaking but when you're taking in from someone else. So I often go to the theater and I'm watching the person who's not talking. I love that.

As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Acting is something I love to do. I love to perform and I love the art, the craft of it.

Acting is a mysterious process.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

When I started studying acting, I was enamoured of actors who used movement to enhance the language.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

I would make a huge distinction between theater improvisation and film improvisation.

Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

The biggest impact that acting and theater had was, of course, stage presence, but it also had a big impact on my writing.

Acting is something I've always loved and enjoyed.

I've realized that the only thing I'm interested in is the performance. If the performance is right, then I'm happy. You offer up the dialogue and then the performance comes around.

One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

I think for acting on stage and in film, one informs the other. Obviously, they require really different kinds of discipline and really different kinds of work. It's more along the same continuum, for me.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

All you really have when you're acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

With acting, there are a lot of subtleties and non-verbals involved. If someone is over there, getting eaten by a shark, there's a non-verbal way of how to act that. There's a certain nuance to acting that does not come intuitively to me. It's something I still have to learn.

I love acting, and doing it well matters to me.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.