Quotes By Ryan Gosling

There's good things about going to church.

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.

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

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.

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 feel like everything has happened naturally.

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 don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.

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.

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 know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

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.

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 try not to discriminate against genres.

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 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.

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