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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. "

Ryan Murphy

Way

Trying

Emotions

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" For me, the saddest thing in the world is always lost potential. That is always the most heartbreaking thing, when there's something left to be mined from a situation or a person that goes unexplored; that's a tragedy to me. "

" It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family. "

" 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. "

" I'm fascinated by the whole clown phobia thing because I personally don't have it. "

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

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

" I would much rather have watched Jill Clayburgh in 'An Unmarried Woman' than 'Star Wars.' Even though I saw that movie when I was 11, I related emotionally to being left and thrown in a trash can on the side of the road. Her damage - I got it. I didn't understand Han Solo at all. "

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

" When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there. "

" Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. "

" 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 was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did. "

" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" I wanted to create a culture that allowed my children to see the world differently, if only from a strictly visual perspective: to have a child see a room where half of the people are women and minorities is so powerful. I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

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

" I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way. "

" I'm very black and white about what I like or don't like, and I've always been that way. "

" I don't think there's ever a winner in a feud. It's about emotional pain and an inability to conquer the pain. "

" 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 had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship. "

Ryan Murphy

School

Too Much

" 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. "

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

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

" At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories. "

" You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel. "

" 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 acumen. "

" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "

" 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. "

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