Top 100 Gosling's Quotes
#1. Even when I did Ryan Gosling's movie (Lost River), we had a very '80s kind of vibe and I would say for two or three months after that, I was dressing in a very sort of '80s way.
Christina Hendricks
#2. Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
Olivia Culpo
#3. I feel like Canadian movies should be as good or better than the competition because of the talent we have here. Someone like Ryan Gosling shouldn't have to come back here because it's a Canadian movie. He should want to come back because some of the best movies are being made here.
Kevin Zegers
#4. I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
Ryan Gosling
#5. James Franco has this interesting and relaxed look. It's pretty 'I don't care,' but it still looks good. Ryan Gosling also has amazing style. I take a lot of my fashion tips from those two. In my opinion, they're the ones getting it right.
Josh Henderson
#6. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#7. I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
Ryan Gosling
#8. I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
Ryan Gosling
#9. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#10. I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.
Ryan Gosling
#11. Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.
Paula Gosling
#12. I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
Ryan Gosling
#13. I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
Ryan Gosling
#14. If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things.
Ryan Gosling
#15. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#16. The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
Will Ferrell is a man.
Meryl Streep
#17. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than (one) film.
Ryan Gosling
#18. I never paid attention to many of the Nicholas Sparks films. 'The Notebook,' which my wife liked, I felt that Ryan Gosling was a genius in it and Rachel McAdams has this thing about her that you just want to take care of her. I remember that chemistry between them.
George Tillman Jr.
#19. I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.
Ryan Gosling
#20. Sometimes, you know, you have to cause trouble to end trouble.
Paula Gosling
#22. Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
Ryan Gosling
#23. If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.
Ryan Gosling
#24. On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.
Ryan Gosling
#25. I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.
Ryan Gosling
#26. I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
Ryan Gosling
#27. I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.
Ryan Gosling
#28. It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years.
Ryan Gosling
#29. If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Ryan Gosling
#30. I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
Ryan Gosling
#31. I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do.
Ryan Gosling
#32. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#33. I like Ryan Gosling from the inside. I think he's a beautiful person, and then if you didn't have anything, I'd still be his friend.
Ashton Moio
#34. As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
Ryan Gosling
#35. I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
Ryan Gosling
#36. That would be like me tellin' a gosling not to migrate down south his first mature season. You got to go. Got to. There's gonna be snakes and foxes, and in your case, [ ... ], there might even be men with guns.
Walter Mosley
#37. There's good things about going to church.
Ryan Gosling
#38. There's a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It's not my favorite way to work.
Ryan Gosling
#39. The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
Ryan Gosling
#40. There are so many young talented actors today whose work I respect and admire - Ryan Gosling is probably primary among them. I take inspiration from so many amazing actors.
Daniel Sunjata
#41. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#42. People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.
James Gosling
#43. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#44. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#45. My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody,
Michelle Williams
#46. The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it's not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.
Ryan Gosling
#47. In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.
Ryan Gosling
#48. A lot of people when they make movies, the actors act like it's their journey and that everyone is on the set to facilitate their journey and the whole thing is set up that way - they ask if you want anything.
Ryan Gosling
#49. I've surprised myself and made another career change. I had a great time at Google, met lots of interesting people, but I met some folks outside doing something completely outrageous, and after much anguish decided to leave Google.
James Gosling
#51. It's like if Ryan Gosling showed up at your door dressed like Noah from The Notebook, bearing flowers and whiskey. You'd be stupid not to take that bike for a ride.
Staci Hart
#52. I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
Ryan Gosling
#53. I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
Ryan Gosling
#54. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#55. I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he's Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I'm a big fan of his.
Drake
#56. I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.
Ryan Gosling
#57. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#58. Just because something makes sense after the fact doesn't mean it was obvious all along.
Sam Gosling
#59. I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Ryan Gosling
#60. There are two kinds of books in this world. One improves the mind, the other the bank balance. Sometimes they're the same
but not often. Most publishers find combining the two is the only way to stay afloat.
Paula Gosling
#62. They shared the chores of living as some couples do-she did most of the work and he appreciated it.
Paula Gosling
#63. Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.
Ryan Gosling
#64. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#65. In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.
Ryan Gosling
#66. If I were to pick a language to use today other than Java, it would be Scala
James Gosling
#67. I think Ryan Gosling is a really great actor who's meticulous about his work. And I'd love to have the guts that Johnny Depp has to actually go outside the box on a character. When he plays a character, he plays it in a way that nobody else would.
Ashton Kutcher
#68. I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.
Ryan Gosling
#69. Having things taken away from you is not the same as giving them away.
Paula Gosling
#70. An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.
James Gosling
#71. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#72. I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
Ryan Gosling
#73. I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.
Ryan Gosling
#74. You know how sometimes department stores have these things where, if you win, you get 10 minutes to go in and take anything you want from the store? That's basically what I'm doing. I'm running in and just trying to grab as many characters as possible before they pull the plug on me.
Ryan Gosling
#75. Ryan [Gosling] has a history with the Mickey Mouse Club. He was a child performer himself. And he took the time to get to know people.
Joel Silver
#76. I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
Ryan Gosling
#77. I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.
Ryan Gosling
#78. I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.
Ryan Gosling
#79. I've been lucky, so lucky, working with [ ... ] Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there's only so much I can do on my own.
Ryan Gosling
#80. I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid.
Ryan Gosling
#81. Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs
James Gosling
#82. I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
Ryan Gosling
#83. There's this Ryan Gosling quote that I steal all the time - I watched an interview with him in Cannes - and he said picking roles is like listening to songs on the radio: There can be a lot of really great songs in a row, but then one comes on that just makes you want to dance.
Emma Stone
#84. I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no other kin.
William Shakespeare
#85. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#86. I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
Ryan Gosling
#87. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#88. Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.
Ryan Gosling
#89. During the integration meetings between Sun and Oracle, where we were being grilled about the patent situation between Sun and Google, we could see the Oracle lawyer's eyes sparkle.
James Gosling
#90. I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
Ryan Gosling
#91. I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
Ryan Gosling
#92. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#93. I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?
Ryan Gosling
#94. I know is if you're going to cheat on Silas Nash it had better be with Ryan Gosling.
Colleen Hoover
#95. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#96. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.
Shannon Hale
#97. 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.
Ryan Gosling
#98. When I was young, I wanted to be the face of a makeup campaign or a hair campaign, so that's something that I've always dreamed of that hopefully comes along. And then obviously starring with Ryan Gosling in a movie wouldn't be so bad, either.
Emeraude Toubia
#99. When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.
Keri Russell
#100. I am pretty sick with myself! It seemed a pretty good idea at the time. Around the time I turned 30, I started to feel very creative, more creative than I had been before which is good and I like that.
Ryan Gosling
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