Sarah Paulson Quotes

I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.

I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.

My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there were small parts I could go up for, but the director gave me the part of Mozart, which was kind of the lead role. From then on I just loved it.

I'd been a housewife and mother to our son Thomas Jefferson, and I was looking for a new career. So when my agent called and said a producer named Paul Elliott from E&B productions, the biggest panto company in the country at the time, wanted to meet me I agreed.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

I always wanted to be an actress. I think that is something that I could be pretty good at.

The first show I was in was 'Dracula' in 1975.

I was an actor in New York, dude.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.

The first-ever job I had was in a play, 'Trench Kiss,' with Caroline Quentin and Arthur Smith.

My mom put me into my first play at five at a local theater, and the next day after my first practice, I was like, 'This is what I want to do with my life.'

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

My first lead role was a stage play called 'A Kestrel for a Knave'. I was 11.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

When I was 16 years old, I joined a drama group called North Queensland Academy of Dramatic Art under a woman called Maggie Shephard-King. She inspired me to audition for the role of Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.