Sarah Paulson

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

“If I'm not moved from one spot to another, internally, while I'm witnessing it, reading it, consuming it, whatever, I don't know why we're being asked to the party.”

“I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.”

“There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.”

“My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life.”

“I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.”

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

“Being in a hotel room and watching 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' is one of my great joys.”

“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.”

“'American Horror Story' is my home. It's the place I feel the most comfortable.”

“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.”

“My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My mom worked late, and I was at home a lot by myself. It was good for my imagination - and bad for it, too.”

“I moved to L.A. and did a two-part episode of this British export show called 'Cracker.' I kissed Josh Hartnett. I think Josh Hartnett's first onscreen kiss was me, unfortunately.”

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

“My choices in romantic partners have not been conventional, and therefore, the idea that it is 'other' makes it compelling.”

“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.”