Brittany Murphy Net Worth

Brittany Murphy's Quotes

• I don't read the script a zillion times, I don't like to analyze things and my mind can go there very easily.
• 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!
• I have 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.
• Home is where my mom is.
• I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

Interesting Facts about Brittany Murphy

1. She was set to star in a biopic of Janis Joplin, however the film was grounded over battles for the rights to Joplin's songs. She had won the role over Courtney Love and Emily Watson.
2. She was ranked 32nd on the Maxim Hot 100 List in 2003.
3. She was the lead singer in her '90s band "Blessed with Soul".
4. Her mother, Sharon Murphy, is a survivor of breast cancer.
5. Her high school prom date was Jonathan Brandis.
6. She was engaged to Jeff Kwatinetz from January 2004 - August 2004.
7. Eric Balfour was a member of her '90s band "Blessed with Soul".
8. Her paternal grandparents were both of Italian descent. Her maternal grandfather had Irish ancestry. Her maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Kochan, was the daughter of Slovak parents, Wasil Kochan and Sophie Salanski.
9. She was ranked 8th on the Maxim Hot 100 List in 2005.
10. She was engaged to Joe Macaluso from December 2005 - August 2006.
11. She stated in her will that all of her assets should be left to her mother, Sharon Murphy.
12. She played the trumpet and piano.
13. She visited the US troops in Baghdad and Kuwait.
14. She took dance classes six days a week as a kid.
15. She was very close friends with Winona Ryder and Meredith Zealy.
16. She was named "Hollywood's biggest flirt" by an American teen poll.
17. Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross were her career idols.
18. She had a breast cancer scare and lumps removed from her right breast.
19. She thought of the tabloids and paparazzi as a weird cousin.
20. She kept a notebook by her bed and would write poems in the middle of the night.