Sarah Paulson Quotes

You never say never, but I don't think I'd want to do a long-running series.

Plays are a pretty big commitment. It takes a minimum of three months out of your life, really. And if you have family or kids, then at least during the rehearsal period for five or six weeks, you kind of say goodbye to everybody.

I think television is a big commitment, so it has to be something that you're really excited about and something that you want to potentially commit a lot of time to.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

Becoming an actor? If it's not a calling, don't do it. It's too hard.

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

There is no point in appearing in just a few episodes. If I do a show on television, it won't be for a few episodes only.

I was being a sort of rebellious teenager, really. But there was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after. As long as they kept asking me to come back, I was gonna keep doing it. 'Cause I loved the story! There's no way I would have left.

I started off in theater; I did exclusively theater for four or five years. In the last few years, television has come along but I can still make film. I feel very privileged that I can move between them.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

The only thing that would deter me at the moment would be the idea of doing one thing for a very long time. There is no doubt in my mind that television is an incredibly auspicious medium right now. It's where a lot of the serious acting is taking place.

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously.

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

For one year, I want to do this thing where I guest-star on as many television shows as I possibly can. I love television. The fact that television ultimately made me famous was very gratifying for me.

Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?

In my career, whether it's a big or a small movie, when I've worked on something for a long time, like [Ivan] Drago in Rocky IV, they start to take on a life of their own.

I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.

Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.

All the people that still believed in me, after seven years - it's a long time.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone's garage." If that's where the work is that's exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.

I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come up with an episode until when it airs. We can't drag it out that long. With film, and this is not a profound observation or an original one; it can go on endlessly unless the movie's like incredibly topical. That's the challenge for me, as an impatient person who wants see things come to life. ... I mean, it's just this feeling I get when I see a movie I love.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.