Ryan Phillippe famous quotes

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Mean #People #Bills

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

#Ideas #Doing Me #Appeals

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Growing Up #Kids #Parenting

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Gun

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.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Teens #World #Twenties

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Want #Proud #Miserable

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.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Cutting #Opportunity #Careers

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.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Dark #Trying #Granted

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

#Ideas #People #Want

I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good,
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Years #Opinion #Film

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Issues #Social #Social Issues

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

#Sister #Brother #Three

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Sister #People #Earth

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Daughter #Mother #Stress

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Ocean #Writing #Marijuana

It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Want #Lucky #Incredibles

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Nice #People #Ugly

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

#Hands #Might #Done

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Kids #Home #Men

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Cutting #People #Want

I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Passion #Actors #Film

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Play #Would Be #Musician

People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Stars #People #Trying

People are sheepish when they approach me.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#People #Approach

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Children #Important #Raises

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Boys #White #Stories

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.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Scripts #Stories #Found

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

#Tarantino #Enjoy

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Firsts #Film

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#One Day #Filmmaker

I won't make a movie for money ever again.
-- Ryan Phillippe

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

#Race #Diversity #Age

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Actors

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

#Finding The One #Stuff #Way

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Ensemble

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.
-- Ryan Phillippe

#Kids #Boys #White