Ryan Phillippe Quotes
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I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.
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To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
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The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It's a place I want to take my children back to. It's a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it's one of the most complex places on the planet.
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To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.
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I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.
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I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
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It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.
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The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
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I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
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On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
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Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
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I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.
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A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.
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At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
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My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
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Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
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It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
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A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
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I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
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Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.