Ryan Gosling Quotes

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

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.

I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.

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.

I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

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.

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

There's good things about going to church.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.

Freedom is such a gift.

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I've been lucky, so lucky, working with [ ... ] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there's only so much I can do on my own.

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

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.

I don't know what art is exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's not something you get paid to do. For myself acting is a job. I think it's easier to get better at it if you don't lose your identity in it. You do whatever you can to try to understand the character. Because they're paying you feel like you should be doing something.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

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.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

I've been doing this since I was 12 ... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.

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.

I feel like everything has happened naturally.

You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.

I met a girl, and she is a gamechanger

You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

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.

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.

Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.

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.