I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. — Ryan Murphy Actor Copy Share Image
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a… — Ryan Murphy Day Copy Share Image
I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business… — Ryan Murphy Amazing Copy Share Image
One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and… — Ryan Murphy Actor Copy Share Image
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always… — Ryan Murphy Business Copy Share Image
One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to… — Ryan Murphy Actors Copy Share Image
Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and… — Ryan Murphy Change Copy Share Image
For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
If you look at 'American Horror Story' or 'Crime Story,' these are visceral, action-packed, sometimes bloody episodes of television. They're not 'feminine.'… — Ryan Murphy Beautiful Copy Share Image
When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For… — Ryan Murphy Amazing Copy Share Image
People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be… — Ryan Murphy Emotions Copy Share Image
I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair. — Ryan Murphy Age Copy Share Image
I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. — Ryan Murphy Home Copy Share Image
I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white… — Ryan Murphy Business Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women. — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the… — Ryan Murphy Failure Copy Share Image
I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who… — Ryan Murphy Business Copy Share Image
I've always been sort of, 'I love it,' or, 'I hate it,' and I think, as a result, I've always been a… — Ryan Murphy Hate Copy Share Image
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort… — Ryan Murphy Being Copy Share Image
All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this… — Ryan Murphy Copy Share Image
