Top 50 Brittany Murphy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you can’t change your surroundings, change your hair color.”

— Brittany Murphy

2. “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.”

— Brittany Murphy

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3. “Sometimes we love people so much that we have to be numb to it. Because if we actually felt how much we love them, it would kill us. That doesn’t make you a bad person. It just means your heart’s too big.”

— Brittany Murphy

4. “Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.”

— Brittany Murphy

5. “I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.”

— Brittany Murphy

6. “Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.”

— Brittany Murphy

7. “I find this life so interesting.”

— Brittany Murphy

8. “I’m a clean freak and a germaphobe – I have hand sanitizer in my pocket.”

— Brittany Murphy

9. “Home is where my mom is.”

— Brittany Murphy

10. “I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.”

— Brittany Murphy

11. “I come from a military family.”

— Brittany Murphy

12. “My singing voice isn’t like my speaking voice.”

— Brittany Murphy

13. “My dreams and aspirations when I was a child for as long as I can remember was to be an entertainer.”

— Brittany Murphy

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

— Brittany Murphy

15. “Curiosity did kill the cat, but I’m very curious.”

— Brittany Murphy

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

— Brittany Murphy

17. “Yeah, I’m a giver. I’ve learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.”

— Brittany Murphy

18. “It’s easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It’s fun to get lost in love and romance. It’s the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.”

— Brittany Murphy

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19. “Well, I lost my virginity in a car. But it wasn’t a very nice one.”

— Brittany Murphy

20. “I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I’d rather live my private life than read about it.”

— Brittany Murphy

21. “Cherish the good, learn from the bad.”

— Brittany Murphy

22. “I’m a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I’m a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.”

— Brittany Murphy

23. “I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.”

— Brittany Murphy

24. “I am honored to be a part of that film. It has a really important message, embracing one’s individuality. It was the most universal film I’ve ever read.”

— Brittany Murphy

25. “I never had a chance to learn how to drive.”

— Brittany Murphy

26. “I’d do almost anything for love, within safe boundaries. I’ve flown to places to surprise people, even if it was just for a day. I think it’s so important to keep the romance alive and make sure the fun and spontaneity are there.”

— Brittany Murphy

27. “It’s always been my mom and I against the world.”

— Brittany Murphy

28. “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.”

— Brittany Murphy

29. “I’ve always seen myself as one of those ‘show people.’ My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.”

— Brittany Murphy

30. “I’ve grown environmentally. I’m far more cautious, although I always have been; but more now. And I have grown a lot professionally by working with George Miller.”

— Brittany Murphy

31. “You actually can make it, no matter what. I truly am a firm believer in that. Eminem’s living proof.”

— Brittany Murphy

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

— Brittany Murphy

33. “My trouble is I talk first and think later.”

— Brittany Murphy

34. “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.”

— Brittany Murphy

35. “I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.”

— Brittany Murphy

36. “I’ve been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.”

— Brittany Murphy

37. “I definitely want to start a family, but that will happen when it’s supposed to.”

— Brittany Murphy

38. “I do sarcasm really poorly.”

— Brittany Murphy

39. “One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn’t remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I’ve met him as an adult!”

— Brittany Murphy

40. “To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.”

— Brittany Murphy

41. “If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.”

— Brittany Murphy

42. “I ask a lot because I’m very curious – especially about ex-girlfriends. I’m pretty good at getting the answers, too.”

— Brittany Murphy

43. “I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!”

— Brittany Murphy

44. “With all the technology we’re inventing and what they’re coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It’s scary, but in the same sense it’s also very exciting.”

— Brittany Murphy

45. “I’m not really a big candy eater.”

— Brittany Murphy

46. “It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.”

— Brittany Murphy

47. “I consider myself a character actor.”

— Brittany Murphy

48. “I’m a really rotten liar. Generally, if I’ve tried to pull off a lie, it hasn’t worked out to my advantage.”

— Brittany Murphy

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

— Brittany Murphy

50. “I don’t even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?”

— Brittany Murphy