Quotes from Brittany Murphy

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

Home is where my mom is.

It's always been my mom and I against the world.

My singing voice isn't like my speaking voice.

Anyone that has a music career and an acting career I think is pretty fantastic.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.

I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it's always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

I've never formally trained in acting, so I'm very instinctual and visceral with decisions.

Everybody has difficult years but sometimes they end up being the greatest years of your life, if you survive them.