Ryan Murphy Quotes

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

Yeah, at home it’s all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side – and I like writing about it.

– Ryan Murphy

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

– Ryan Murphy

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

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

– Ryan Murphy

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.

– Ryan Murphy

Originally, ‘Popular’ was going to be a movie.

– Ryan Murphy

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

– Ryan Murphy

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

– Ryan Murphy

I love crispy, cool sheets.

– Ryan Murphy

I have a maid.

– Ryan Murphy

Tone is everything in TV.

– Ryan Murphy

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.

– Ryan Murphy