I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. — Ryan Murphy Create Copy Share Image
I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. — Ryan Murphy Better Copy Share Image
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. — Ryan Murphy Excited 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 love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story. — Ryan Murphy Advocacy Copy Share Image
I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. — Ryan Murphy Art Copy Share Image
You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. — Ryan Murphy Canceled Copy Share Image
I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. — Ryan Murphy About Copy Share Image
I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. — Ryan Murphy I love Copy Share Image
All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying… — Ryan Murphy Better Copy Share Image
“The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.” — Ryan Murphy Poetry Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman… — Ryan Murphy Growing 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 Anything 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
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 Casting 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 Accepted 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
For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were… — Ryan Murphy Academy award 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
I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the… — Ryan Murphy Female Copy Share Image
I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when… — Ryan Murphy Road Copy Share Image
Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people… — Ryan Murphy I love Copy Share Image
The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. — Ryan Murphy Biggest 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 Cincinnati 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 Chair 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 About Copy Share Image
As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate… — Ryan Murphy Maybe Copy Share Image
I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other… — Ryan Murphy Bette davis Copy Share Image
You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. — Ryan Murphy Home Copy Share Image
The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. — Ryan Murphy Create 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 Eye Copy Share Image
I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. — Ryan Murphy Always Copy Share Image
I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. — Ryan Murphy Childhood Copy Share Image
