Ryan Phillippe Quotes

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Ryan Phillippe

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 10, 1974

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

Ryan Phillippe

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

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What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

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There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

Ryan Phillippe

I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.

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My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

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A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

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I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

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There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

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The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

Ryan Phillippe

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

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Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

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Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

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I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

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I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

Ryan Phillippe

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

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To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

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But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

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I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

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