R. J. Reynolds Quotes

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

I'm going to admit when I'm clueless, and I'm going to ask people for help when I don't know the answer to something.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

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.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.

We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.

I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in.

Entourage [movie] really is established as a genre unto itself, much like the thriller or the horror movie or the comedy. And those things trend.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

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.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

I've always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18 and then I sort of straightened out.

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

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