Ryan Gosling Quotes

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Ryan Gosling

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 12, 1980

I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.

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It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.

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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 the way I approach my work as an actor.

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Women are better than men.

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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.

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My mom was really cool.

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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.

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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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They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'

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I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.

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

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There's something messed up with my brain.

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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.

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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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I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence.

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Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I'm the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio's face. Actually, I don't know if I'm the pigeon, or I'm Fabio's face. Depends on the day, I guess.

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When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.

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Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

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I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

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I make a mean tuna fish sandwich.

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