Sarah Paulson's Career Advice? Don't Succeed So Early

''Maybe you know Sarah Paulson as that actress who played Marcia Clark (FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson) or as one of the mainstays of the spooky American Horror Story ensemble (she's back on the show this month), but the 41-year-old's career hasn't progressed as quickly as she'd hoped. Which is why it's all working out exactly as she wants it to.

Start Out Disappointed If at All Possible

If my career had turned out like the fantasy I had of what it was going to be, it would never have made me happy. But I couldn't have known that until it didn't happen. I found a success that is so much bigger and deeper and better, and it's because it happened later. If any of what I'm having happen now—the successes—would have happened to me when I was younger, I would have been ruined. Because when you're young, and things come super easily to you, and you have success right out of the gate, you're liable to think that's how it actually works. You start to think you don't need to be fully prepared or committed to have these things meet you...''

by CLAY SKIPPER