Ryan Reynolds Quotations

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.

There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt.

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.

Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.

I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

A nicely fitted two-button suit is the best thing any guy can have. Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

I think theres escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If its done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.

Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

My career has been an inch at a time.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.

When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always.

My foot peg just clipped him a bit. I'm not worried about his car - it was like, I was a foot peg away from death. But all's well that ends well. I'm still alive

I don't know where this is coming from; I've never played 'the game,' ... I did hear rumblings that some of those guys were out there, you know, flashing their gear. Whatever turns your crank, that's what I say.

I worked as a busboy in real life. I have some calluses that are not just from snacking at the actors' craft service table,

You know... I think I'm getting a little coldsore come on... so maybe we shouldn't do this for 3 to 6 weeks?

We talked to everyone to work the problem and tried to stay calm and cool. It feels good to have something you train so long for go well. You just never think this is going to happen to you.

Oh God, 'the game,' ... From what I remember, it's just a really disgusting exercise in homophobic futility ... I cannot even believe it made it into this movie. It's disgusting.

Anyone that has worked in the restaurant industry, or the hospitality industry for that matter, will definitely relate to some of the aspects of this movie,

I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.