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Sarah Paulson

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Film actress

Sarah Paulson is an accomplished American actress, born on December 17, 1975. She is renowned for her outstanding performances in various television series and films, particularly in 'American Horror Story' and 'Murder She Wrote'. Paulson is highly praised for her profound understanding and masterful portrayal of characters.

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“All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.”

Mother My Friends Let Me Grades Concerts Let Me Go

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“I am a person who is not mated.”

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“I've never been on a show that's run for more than a season.”

Shows Running Seasons

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“I've only been to one concert in my life.”

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“If you heard me sing, you would just plug your ears and run, screaming, the other way. I promise.”

Ifs Way Running Heard Promise Ears I Promise Plugs

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“No, I'm not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.”

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“To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.”

Impossible Get Real Bleak

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“I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.”

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“I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.”

People Thinking Way Important Stories Use Would Be Judging

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“I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.”

Knows Feels Happens Choices Roles Pieces Where You Are Single Women

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“I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.”

Thinking Trying Firsts Made Wanted Voice Forever Terrible Singing Musical Actresses Annie Always And Forever

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“I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.”

Done Administration Johnson Hbo

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“I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.”

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“Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it’s nice to go, Well, I’m gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You don’t get to do that on television.”

Thinking Wells Two Sometimes Use Able Acting Nice Television Months Storytelling Two Months

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“The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.”

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“The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.”

Persons Worry Me Alone Alone Time

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“To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.”

Ifs Kind Mean Would Be Black White Black And White Grey

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“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.”

Ifs Years Character Shows Running Successful Tvs Blessing Curse Odds Tv Shows Tiresome

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“There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.”

Happens Certain Consequence Things Happen

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“My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.”

Ifs Way Feels Mean Persons Love Is Successful Stage Lucky Findings Shots Core Being Successful Reviews Right Way Great Love Firing

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

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“I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.”

Made Television

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“If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.”

Ifs Different Would Be Forever Mediums

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“The theater commitment is hard, especially in conjunction with a television commitment. That's a big, long commitment.”

Long Hard Bigs Television Commitment Theater Conjunctions

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“I'm one of those actors who's just standing there, waiting and ready for something to come my way. I don't really try to think about, "Oh, I feel the next thing I should do should be a feature. Now, I think I should do a play." I just hope someone wants to cast me in something.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Should Trying Play Next Actors Waiting Ready Standing Casts My Way Features Standing There

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“All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.”

Thinking World Way Feels Jobs Mother Asks Hours Four College Terrible My Friends Circles Nervous Spells Pizza Feels Right

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“I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.”

Firsts Feelings Remember Differences Forget Audience Stage First Time Never Forget Curtains Forget It Temperature

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“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.”

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Years Children Different Certain Theater Moved Routine Different Place

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“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.”

Feels I Can Night Stage Goes On Warm Dinner Makeup Ritual Every Night Costumes

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“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.”

Knows I Can Audience Reactions Stillness Immediacy

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“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.”

Persons Moments Feelings Lines Brain Talking Laughing Heard Listening Seven

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“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.”

Years Mother Dies Energy Series Supreme Witch Twins Reporters Addict Acid Heroin Old Woman Blinded Energy And Life Conjoined Twins

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“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.”

People Thinking World Long Has Beens Important Matter Opportunity Waiting Particular Sitting Seasons Actresses Sitting Around Sitting Around Waiting

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“I could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.”

Years Two Play Millions

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“I was a victim of what most people are a victim of, which is really, really just gulping down what was being fed to me by the media.”

People Media Victim Feds

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“Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.”

Terrible Terrible Things

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“I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.”

Hair Hollywood Actresses Blonde Blonde Hair

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“When I have brown hair I feel the most like myself, but I don't feel glamorous. It's a disgusting thing to admit.”

Feels Hair Brown Disgusting Glamorous Brown Hair

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“I could feel my body temperature - I knew I was bright red. It was so humiliating, I was so upset, and it was nothing I had planned to do. It was just one of those beautiful moments, the alchemy of acting that is so mysterious, where you sort of go, "How did that come out of me?"”

Feels Moments Body Beautiful Acting Red Mysterious Upset Just One Temperature Alchemy Humiliating Beautiful Moments Body Temperature

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“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.”

Humans Persons Matter Moments Jobs Given Human Beings Truth Is Capable Conscious Anything Is Possible

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“I just don't feel that we've traveled very far in the realm of social equality. There just seems to be a little bit of unrest. And sometimes I think that happens when you really feel like something's about to change. Right before the moment of lift off, sometimes things feel a little bit unhinged, and that's what it feels like to me right now, both as a woman and just as a human on the planet as an American woman in America. I feel like we're on the precipice of change. I feel a little nervous.”

Thinking Sometimes Moments Nervous

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“I think sometimes when you can feel the velocity of change, like nowadays, you really need a seat belt. It's almost like having a growth spurt that you can feel, like a 16-year-old who woke up one day and grew four inches literally overnight. That can be a painful thing sometimes.”

Thinking Sometimes Growth One Day Painful

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“I learned, having played Marcia Clark, what the value of that is in your life because it can affect everything, every choice you make, the way you deal with a stranger on the street, or your best friend or lover. It's a powerful thing to know yourself and to have the commitment and the courage to let that be your guide.”

Values Choices Powerful Lovers Commitment Stranger Know Yourself Your Best Friend

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“Playing Sally McKenna was a wonderful, freeing thing because we all in life have so many responsibilities to ourselves, to other people, that we rarely get to explore a very selfish side of ourselves in doing what we want, when we want, how we want, without answering to or being responsible for anyone else.”

People Responsibility Wonderful Responsible Selfish Being Responsible

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“I personally think it would be a very liberating thing for women to allow themselves to understand that having it all incorporates sacrifice. It does mean that you can't be everywhere all the time. It does mean that your friends are not going to get all of you.”

Thinking Mean Sacrifice Liberating

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“That is my reality. It's that important to nurture and foster my own creativity. There are plenty of birthday parties I haven't been able to go to, weddings I haven't been able to go to because I've been working. Those are things that have not been easy to give up, but at the same time, it is my reality. It's my responsibility.”

Giving Important Reality Easy Party Responsibility Creativity Giving Up Plenty Nurture Birthday Party

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“I have friends say, "Don't you want to have a little you?" The jury's still out on that for me. I don't have a definitive answer, but I do know that I can look back on some of the things I've worked on and some of the things that have literally come out of my imagination and be just as proud of it as if I had created a person. I feel like that shouldn't be of any less value. It can't be because it's what my life is, and I don't want to make it smaller or more palatable just because society tells you to. If you can get comfortable with sacrifice, then you are having it all.”

Values Imagination Sacrifice Proud My Imagination

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“I don't have children, but my work life is as important to me as anything could be. I've dedicated a lot of time and energy and years to it. Some might say some of my childbearing years to it. In and of itself, my work is like a child to me. That is my reality.”

Children Important Reality Energy My Children Dedicated Time And Energy

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“I've never been very comfortable as an actor looking out into the audience; I always like to keep my focus on the other person. When you start playing out to the audience, it takes me out of it, because people don't do that when you're in life behaving with another person - you don't often look out, around you, in a presentational manner.”

People Audience Focus

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Born: December 17, 1975
Known for: Film actress
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