Sarah Paulson Quotes

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

I do things on TV that are kitchen-sink realism, which is great, but I like the challenge of a completely new language and dramatic environment.

I just don't understand why more actors aren't artists.

I'm an actor in that I just want to create roles and characters and play parts that people remember and like or dislike or hate.

Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.

When my career started on daytime soaps, those characters usually didn't have much depth to them. The main goal was to memorize my lines in order to film efficiently the next day. But with 'Jane The Virgin,' the writing is strong, and everything is intentional.

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Sometimes I'm playing somebody that I may have a problem with. Your job as an actor is not to go only play things that make you look good.

I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not.

What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.

I really consider acting a high art.

The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.

There is no such thing as playing someone else's character. Every actor takes a character and makes it his/her own while enacting it on screen.

I don't think about how many times how many heroines have said 'I love you' to how many heroes on screen and that I am also doing the same. It is how differently I can say the same thing in my own style or how I can bring a new element into it.

As an actor, if you want to explore something new inside you, you need to do something different that you don't do in your regular life. You need to think in a different way. It is my duty to think like the character that I am given and believe in his mindset; only then I will be able to portray it.

My job is that of an actor. As long as I get to act, get some interesting parts to play, get to be a part of interesting stories, I would certainly want to do it.

Every once in a while, I'll have an acting role that allows me to look at something in my life and work it out.

As actors, that has been challenging for us to pick up the nuances of the living legends we are playing.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.