Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So itโs nice to go, Well, Iโm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling. You donโt get to do that on television.
Sarah PaulsonI could never have thought, "I wanna play a two-headed woman." That just never would have occurred to me, in a million years.
Sarah PaulsonThat 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.
Sarah PaulsonI 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.
Sarah PaulsonI 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.
Sarah Paulson