Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Gosling
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.
I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
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.
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.
I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.
I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.
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'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
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.
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.
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 just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
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 think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
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.
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.
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
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.
My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act.
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.
Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar.
I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.
Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away.
They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'
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.
It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with.
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.
Freedom is such a gift.
As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
I feel like everything has happened naturally.
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
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.
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.
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.
Women are better than men.
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 been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.
Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.
You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
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.
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
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 like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
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.
There's something messed up with my brain.
Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.
I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
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