Ryan Gosling Quotes

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.

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 relate to these characters because aspects of their personality are like me. And I just turn up the parts of myself that are them and turn down the parts that aren`t.

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.

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 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 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 wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled difference between myself and the character.

I try not to discriminate against genres.

I think we`re very complicated and we`re capable of all kinds of things, and movies don`t reflect that.

Freedom is such a gift.

I worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two months.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was 6, 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 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 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.

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.

You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes and go in and take anything you want from the store? That`s basically what I`m doing. I`m running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.

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

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.

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

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 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 understand the studios, in the sense that if they`re going to spend $100 million on a film, they want to make sure they`re gonna get that back . . . but I don`t know how to guarantee you you`re going to make that money back, and I`m uncomfortable working with those kind of numbers.

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

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.

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 also think that something interesting comes out when you do something that you`re afraid of, so I try to take things that I`m not sure that I can do. And this was certainly one of them. I didn`t feel like I was right for this at all, and I wondered how to find truth in a fairy tale.

I think American news is pretty tragic in general. I can`t tell the difference between "Entertainment Tonight" (1981) and the news. It`s all about ratings. They are trying to sum it all up pretty quickly and try to act as if they understand it.

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.

There is this idea in Hollywood, and I`ve seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is `Do two for them and one for yourself.` And that`s kind of considered a fact. I`ve never really found that to be true for me. I`ve gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren`t special to me.

It`s nice to be around people that have a sense of the world around them, that are, in general, more conscious and conscientious. It was important for me to get an outside look at America even though I grew up in Canada, it`s an incredible country and I love it, but it`s so close. It`s like being too close to a Monet or something. You have to move back. Going to New Zealand helped me to get a read on this place that the whole world was obsessed with.

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.

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 feel like everything has happened naturally.

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

(On this acting hero) Gene Wilder is my Marlon Brando. Gene Wilder will break your heart and make you laugh at the same time. And that`s deep. There`s something really profound about what he`s able to do. It`s transcendent. It`s everything. He gives you everything at once and you have to decide what you feel about it.

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.

A lot of love stories, when they come to the end, they end. We kind of pick up the storyline, and I figure that`s what makes it interesting.