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" What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise. "

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Ryan Murphy

Sexy

Story

Women

" Sometimes in entertainment, when people have done the Academy Awards - like, for example, in 'The Bodyguard' - I just didn't believe it; it didn't feel authentic. "

" 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 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. "

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

" One thing I always do is just tell actors that I'm as afraid as they are, because I can sense that, and I feel it, too. "

" 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 believe most people don't go into show business unless they've been majorly unloved as a child. "

Ryan Murphy

People

Child

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" In television and the movie business, the people who are promoted and the people who are mentored always look like the white guys. "

Ryan Murphy

People

Business

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

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

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

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

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

" Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all. "

Ryan Murphy

New York

Growing

" I love crispy, cool sheets. "

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

" For me, growing up in Indiana with cornfields and churches, I was always very intrigued by the Academy Awards - they were a big event. That was the one night of the year when all of the glittering movie stars got together, and I used to love that night because, as a child, it was a way to dream for me. "

Ryan Murphy

Love

Night

" 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. "

" 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. "

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