Ryan Reynolds Quotes

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.

I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.

By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.

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

I hope that I'm always satisfied and content like I am right at this very moment.

Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.

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

Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James.

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.

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

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

Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.

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

I don't necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, 'Part of the 400 pound club today.'

Mostly birthmarks is what I learned about Sandra Bullock that I wasn't aware of.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

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

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

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.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.

Too much intensity can be a bad thing.

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

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

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

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.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it.

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

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

I'm going to admit when I'm clueless, and I'm going to ask people for help when I don't know the answer to something.

I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful.

If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.

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.

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.

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.

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.

We've all had that moment where the agent thought he hit hold. You hear it's like Hamburger Hill in the background.

We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

I'm not one to mythologize other actors too much, but obviously Sandy Bullock is a gorgeous woman.

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.

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

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

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

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

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

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