Ryan Murphy Quotes

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Ryan Murphy

Profession : Writer

Birth : November 9, 1965

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

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I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father!

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Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams.

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I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in.

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I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk.

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I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

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It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate.

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I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president.

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Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.

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People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.

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When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle.

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You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home.

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With all of my work, it always takes a while for people to get it.

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I think John Landgraf sees things in the same way I do. We see eye to eye on a lot.

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I'm passionate about actors, and I'm passionate about showing actors in different lights.

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I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool.

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I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

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I love Larry Kramer's advocacy, and I love him as a person, and I think young people need to see that story.

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I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

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When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward.

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