The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. — Ryan Murphy Big Copy Share Image
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 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
The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. — Ryan Murphy Create Copy Share Image
You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. — Ryan Murphy Home 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 Awards 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
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 feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I… — Ryan Murphy Feel 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
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'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 Always 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 About 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
When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. — Ryan Murphy Character 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
I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast… — Ryan Murphy Blast Copy Share Image
I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and… — Ryan Murphy Acceptance 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 Create 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
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 Lost 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
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
I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. — Ryan Murphy Always 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 think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. — Ryan Murphy Better Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters… — Ryan Murphy Break 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 find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. — Ryan Murphy Feminism Copy Share Image
Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean… — Ryan Murphy Dream Copy Share Image
I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have… — Ryan Murphy Great 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 Bette davis Copy Share Image
Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe… — Ryan Murphy Academy award 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
“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
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 Big 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
I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they… — Ryan Murphy Bizarre Copy Share Image
I do work with a lot of women in my company, and I write a lot of roles for women over 40.… — Ryan Murphy Alone 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 Actresses Copy Share Image
![“I knew I wanted to work with Brad [Falchuk] and Ian [Brennan] again on something comedic, and we are having a blast writing SCREAM QUEENS. We hope to create a whole new genre - comedy-horror - and the idea is for every season to revolve around two female leads.” quote by Ryan Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a4d/ryan-murphy-7917_blast_i-knew-i-wanted-to-work-with-brad-falchu_1906325.jpg)
