Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Reynolds
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.
I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?
I've had an alarming amount of concussions.
The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.
He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.
I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.
You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.
My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.
It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.
Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.
I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.
I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.
I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.
I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.
We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to - work harder than anybody else.
I just like to look beautiful sometimes.
I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.
The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!'
My career has been an inch at a time.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.
There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.
I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.
Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.
When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.
'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.
It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?
I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.
If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.
I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.
We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.
There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.
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