Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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

" 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.' "

" All the things I have done at one point or another have fallen out of fashion, and there's nothing better than trying to bring something back to life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "

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

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

" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did. "

" 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 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. "

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