Ryan Gosling Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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 try not to discriminate against genres.

Talking about muscles. They're like pets basically. They're 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.

Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.

Freedom is such a gift.

I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.

I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

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 always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

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.

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 Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

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

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.

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

I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

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.

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.

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.

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

I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

[Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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.