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" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "

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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! "

Ryan Murphy

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Father

" All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.' "

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

" 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. "

" I feel like I grew up in such a big way in the past couple of years, in a way that I never thought I would. You can't be the enfant terrible when you have the enfant at home. "

" I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified. "

" As a showrunner, you can never be a 'maybe.' When I do movies, there is a lot of, 'Maybe' and, 'Let's investigate that.' But for TV, it has to be yes or no. "

Ryan Murphy

You

Maybe

" I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years. "

" If you look at 'American Horror Story' or 'Crime Story,' these are visceral, action-packed, sometimes bloody episodes of television. They're not 'feminine.' They're not about sexy women sitting around looking beautiful, drinking lattes. These episodes are calling cards to show companies like Marvel, 'Look, women can do these kind of movies.' "

" You've not felt the pain of rejection until a television show based on your own life is canceled. "

" I love Olivia De Havilland. She is forever a lady. "

" I'd never had a mentor in Hollywood. Men have always been in control of the business, and they usually mentor people who are like them - but two inches shorter. "

" Here's the thing: When you tell somebody, 'I love you. I have always loved your work, and I want to show people a different side of you,' it's sort of an interesting thing that in my case, I've been very lucky, where they're like, 'OK.' "

" I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something. "

" I am not going to do anything unless I am afraid of it. "

" I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me. "

" I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place. "

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

" I lean into fear because I feel like that excites me as an artist. "

Ryan Murphy

Feel

" Larry Kramer wisely realized so early on that to change the world, people have to know you. If they know you and see that we are all the same - that we all have normal hearts - that's the first step. I'm both amazed at the progress and amazed at how far we have to go. "

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

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

" I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff. "

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

" Tone is everything in TV. "

Ryan Murphy

Tone

Everything

" Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie. "

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

" I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day. "

" When I started, you couldn't do anything. A gay person trying to write a gay character in 1998 - it was so difficult. "

" I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don't have to watch it if you think it's going to be something that you're not going to like or learn from. "