Ryan Gosling Quotes
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For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.
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I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
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I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
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If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.
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I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
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In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.
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If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
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If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
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I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
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It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
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I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
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Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
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I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.
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To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
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Freedom is such a gift.
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For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
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Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
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I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
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The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.
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In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
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If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
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I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.