Ryan Murphy Quotes

I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them.

I still feel like a kid sometimes myself so hard to believe that I'm a mom. Now I'm an adult! It only took 38 years!

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who had somehow figured out how to cross that threshold.

When I was 25, people used to say to me that having kids would change you, and I'd roll my eyes.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.

I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child.

Just because you become a parent doesn't mean you grew up.

I've got a family now, which matures you.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

Now I'm the father of three children; I'm not able to go live on a bus and do semesters around the country like I did when I was young.

Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

Having my son made me grow up. I'm keeping my dangers in the movies.

My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.

Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.

Being a late bloomer, I really didn't have any interest in children until my late 30s, but I'm so happy I didn't go through life without that experience.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.