Quotes by Ryan Gosling

About Ryan Gosling:

Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter, musician and businessman. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club (1993–95) and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). He starred in the television series Breaker High (1997–98) as Sean Hanlon and Young Hercules (1998–99) as the title role. His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer (2001), and he then built a reputation for starring in independent films such as Murder by Numbers (2002), The Slaughter Rule (2002), and The United States of Leland (2003).
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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 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.

Ryan Gosling

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

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You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay suppor...

Ryan Gosling

It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.

Ryan Gosling

Freedom is such a gift.

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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 t...

Ryan Gosling

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

Ryan Gosling

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

Ryan Gosling

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.

Ryan Gosling

There's good things about going to church.

Ryan Gosling

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 aud...

Ryan Gosling

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.

Ryan Gosling

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.

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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.

Ryan Gosling

I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.

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Author Bio

  • NameRyan Gosling
  • DescriptionCanadian actor
  • BornNovember 12, 1980
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionTelevision Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Restaurateur; Film Producer; Film Director; Musician; Screenwriter