https://www.maximotv.com Actress Sarah Paulson gives a speech at her Hollywood Walk Of Fame star ceremony on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 6533 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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00:00In the category of television, we honor Sarah Paulson with star number 2829 on
00:11the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congrats, did you guys see it?
00:19Down. On behalf of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, I now declare today Sarah Paulson
00:33Day in Hollywood. Happy, no, I'm just kidding. Wow, okay, so I'm a little nervous, but that's
00:55okay. I want to start by thanking the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for this exceedingly special
01:00honor. And to my Disney, Hulu, and FX families, I thank you so much for being here today.
01:07To my immediate family, dearest friends, long-time colleagues, every actor, every crew member
01:14I have ever had the pleasure of working alongside, my gratitude for you all is boundless.
01:19To the three perfect people, Shet, who spoke today, Amanda, my bird, my best friend of over
01:3325 years, Holland, my love and greatest champion, and Ryan, the man who changed my life, I will
01:43be forever indebted to all of you for taking the time to be here today.
01:46And most significantly, for being in my life so robustly, whoo, for always telling me the
01:54truth and loving me when it's not always easy to do so.
02:00I know some folks lucky enough to receive this honor often talk about the first time they
02:05stood on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. And when thinking about this, I realized my connection
02:11was not from real-life experience, but rather from movies themselves. One particular movie.
02:19Pretty Woman.
02:21I was 14. The scene is indelible in my mind. Julia Roberts' character Vivian and Laura San Giacomo's
02:29character Kit are working the boulevard. Hollywood boulevard. Kit tells another lady who's crowding their turf to, uh, go rest up by Esther Wilson.
02:39Vivian whispers, Williams. Kit shouts, Williams, where you belong.
02:46Yeah, thanks, Bird.
02:51I cannot believe I'm standing here. The Walk of Fame. This is, well, it's outlandish.
02:57I'm not saying I didn't dream of fame. I did. I used to walk around the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan, the public school I graduated from in 1993, quoting lines from Julia Roberts' movies.
03:12My locker, plastered with pictures of her. All it took for this narcissistic teenage brain to become possessed was for someone to say in passing, rather casually mind you, that I looked a little like her. And that was it. My quest to transform into her was born.
03:27It was, uh, a short-lived quest, uh, cause of course I hadn't really considered that no one thought Julia Roberts' like time was up. You know, no one was looking for a poor man's version of her. She, you know, she just got here herself.
03:40I had to come to the grips with the painful reality that her career was hers and hers alone.
03:47I remember a few years later having moved to Los Angeles, sitting in my apartment in West Hollywood, wondering why, like, why couldn't I make it as Julia Roberts' sister or something?
03:58I mean, I had dyed my hair red, for God's sakes. I had practiced her way of talking in the mirror, uh, lamented the fact that I wasn't born with a whiter smile and more teeth.
04:07I, quite frankly, it took me too long to understand that Julia Roberts landed in our hearts because she was so unabashedly herself.
04:15And I was so busy dreaming of a working journey that would mimic Julia Roberts, I couldn't see the road I was already traveling, a road uniquely mine.
04:24A job here. No job, no job, no job. A job there. No job, no job, no job. The job that was going to change everything and then didn't.
04:34A young actress finding her way. And then, I got lucky. Really lucky.
04:41Well, fuck. I met the man who saw my potential before anyone else on planet Earth.
04:52Mr. Ryan Murphy. The person most responsible for my being here today. The person who not only believed in me, but always gave me the one thing that separates a dreaming actor from a working one. Opportunity.
05:06He showered me with the gifts of playing Marsha Clark, Linda Tripp, someone named Hypodermic Sally, Tuberculosis Karen, and the conjoined twins, Bet and Dot, otherwise known to some AHS fans as the lady with two heads.
05:21If I were to list all the characters his fever dreams have created, we'll be here all day.
05:26Ryan, in the world of dreams coming true, that happened the day you chose me.
05:31I feared I wasn't capable of doing the work you put in my path, but the me inside wasn't afraid at all.
05:38It was as if you introduced me to myself.
05:42I'm going to quote James Baldwin here because no one was wiser.
05:47The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover.
05:52If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.
05:57Calling oneself an artist has always felt somewhat, I don't know, pompous to me.
06:01It doesn't feel right to say about myself.
06:03What I can call myself is a human being.
06:06A human being deeply interested in human motivations and desires who hopes by way of a character to find a path towards some truth about being alive.
06:15I realize that maybe this isn't just a narcissistic endeavor to fillet yourself in front of others hoping people clap and cheer,
06:22but perhaps it is a noble way to spend your time in aspiration.
06:27Because in the chaos of our world, the practice of art feels vital to our survival as a society.
06:33I can think of nothing more powerful to answer life's lonelier moments than to try to make one another feel seen.
06:40There isn't one guest sitting here today who isn't responsible for helping me reach this moment in my professional life.
06:46Not one.
06:47Every single one of you, all of you are how I was able to do it, why I was able to do it,
06:52and I will be thankful to you all for your love and support till the end of time.
06:57And it is not lost on me what a privilege it is to be honored in this permanent, undeniable way.
07:03It signals not only to me, but to every dreamer out there that dreams can come true.
07:08And that in my workaday life, endeavoring to find meaning in human connection has mattered.
07:14As the movie that first set me on this unimaginable path comes to its final moment,
07:21Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman starts to play over the final shot of the movie,
07:25where this old guy, happily striding the streets of Hollywood, calls out for all on the boulevard to hear,
07:31What's your dream?
07:34Everybody comes here.
07:35This is Hollywood, land of dreams.
07:38Some come true, some don't.
07:41But this is Hollywood.
07:43There's always time to dream, so keep on dreaming.
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