Ryan Reynolds famous quotes

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Wife #Canada #Ontario

When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Thinking #Twenties #Kind

Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Baby #Thinking #Average

I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Fans #Individual #Projects

The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Girl #Brother #Eye

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Brother #Years #Rugby

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.
-- Ryan Reynolds

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Thinking #Giving #Signatures

Religion poisons everything good in this world.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#World #Poison #This World

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Falling In Love #Confused #Book

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

#Scripts #Comedy

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

#Believe #Way #Villain

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Kids #Creative #Insecurity

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

#Believe #Kids #Chemistry

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Vancouver #Grew Up #Columbia

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

#Passion #Roulette #Russian Roulette

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

#Unorthodox #Different #Stuff

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Son #Play #Vancouver

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

#Understanding #Lines #Cop

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

#Ties #Guy #Different

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Would Be #Stalking

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Thinking #Signatures #Remember

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Responsibility #Guy #Challenges

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

#Guy #Crafts #Shots

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

#Dad #Calling #Cop

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

#Thinking #Stronger #Rough Patches

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

#Important #Tailored Suits #Body

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

#Intelligent #Directors

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

#Father #World #Disappointing

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'.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Two #Week #Knots

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

#Running #Character #Guy

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

#Baseball #Father #Games

'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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Roles #Green #Glad

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

#Running #Nice #America

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Hard Work #Careers #Discipline

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

#People #Heroic #Moments

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Night #People #Important

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Crazy #Real #Home

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Satisfaction #Comedy #Problem

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Tattoo #Beautiful #Real

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Brother #Father #Thinking

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Book #Writing #School

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Pieces #Pajamas #Flannels

I know people that have blacked out that I party with that dont do anything irresponsible. They just act drunk, ... I dont think people should ever drink by themselves because they need to have friends around that can keep them in line in case they do blackout.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Party #Thinking #Drunk

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!
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Art #Crazy #Men

I just like to look beautiful sometimes.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Beautiful #Looks #Sometimes

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

#Issues #Daddy #Tissues

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Turns

I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Running #Fall #Moon

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

#Work Out

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

#Pain #Divorce #Thinking

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Believe #Abandon #Walks

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#God #Daughter #Years

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

#America #Scary #Remember

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Art #Taken #Thinking

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Character #Exercise #Tough

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Stars #Opportunity #Abuse

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

#Height

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

#Running #Thinking #Tests

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

#Way #Bearable #Commit

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

#Giving #Family And Friends #Sides

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

#Work Out #Pandas #Actors

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

#Hockey #Fans #Canada

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

#Blue #Nuts

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Thinking #Wish #Needs

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

#Thinking #Office #Boxes

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!
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Class #Skills #Parent

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

#Giving #Six #Jokes

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

#Training #Shapes #Months

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

#Disappointment #Expectations

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Nice #Use #Done

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Mean #Interviews #Strange

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Thinking #Age #Different

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Running #Shoes #Balance

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Moving #Years #Two

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Book #Lines #Comic

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?
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Believe #Moving #Dark

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Character #Emotional #Vision

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.'
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Believe #New Orleans #Sitting

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Kids #Angel #Thinking

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.
-- Ryan Reynolds

#Baby #Three #Showing Up

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

#Kind #Crisis #Be Good