113 Quotes by Ryan Murphy

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

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 started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references.

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.

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

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

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.