Ryan Gosling Quotes

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Ryan Gosling

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 12, 1980

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines.

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I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.

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When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.

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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.

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There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.

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Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life.

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That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.

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I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me.

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Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar.

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People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.

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When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'

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I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.

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It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.

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I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it.

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I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

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I try not to discriminate against genres.

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