Top 100 Quotes About Ryan Reynolds
#1. Deadpool would have been an amazing character to play, but Ryan Reynolds already did that.
Zachary Levi
#2. I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home.
Mindy Kaling
#3. My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.
Hillary Scott
#4. I've been a Ryan Reynolds fan since the first time I saw him.
Ben Mendelsohn
#5. The things that I write are autobiographical in a surreal sense, like when you have a dream and you go to the doctor's office, but then you turn around and it's actually your childhood home and the doctor has turned into Ryan Reynolds.
Diablo Cody
#6. My go-to line when it's the resume game is that I'm either Chris Evans or Ryan Reynolds.
Chris Pine
#7. I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.
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#10. Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.
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#13. 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.
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#14. When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
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#15. '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.
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#16. 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.
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#17. I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
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#18. 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!
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.
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#24. I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
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#25. 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.'
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one.
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#30. When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That's where I get sort of lost. I think, "Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!" I feel more at home with drama.
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#31. You can be deported back to Canada, absolutely, for a shockingly minor infraction. Little bar fight. Next thing you know you are back in Sascatchuan. Which I'm not from, thank God ... But it did concern me.
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#32. I don't think I'm prepared to give away my technique to Great Britain. Are you crazy? All I can say is there was a ninja and a fire truck involved, and a great deal of coersion.
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#33. I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.
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#34. I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.
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#35. 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.
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#36. We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
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#37. 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!
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#39. 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.
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#40. For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.
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#41. I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.
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#42. I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more.
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#43. It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
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#44. I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets.
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#45. I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?
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#46. When you're growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can't always be, 'Let's go see a specialist, see if you're okay.' If you got hurt, you just walked it off.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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'.
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#49. 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.
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#50. I learned early on to abandon all those preconceived notions you have about other actors and it's served me really well. I usually just try to empty my mind of that. I love meeting actors and I love working with actors.
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#51. I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.
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#52. I don't like seeing the stuff that's not polished. It's harder for me to step away from it and watch that.
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#53. I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.
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#57. Wouldn't that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone's neck to make them immediately urinate.
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#58. I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. 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.
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#63. I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
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#67. My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'
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#68. 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.
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#69. I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.
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#70. I finally had my prostate checked. And I was super-thankful that I taught my asshole to whistle before the doctor stuck his finger in there. The look on his face was priceless.
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#71. If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
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#72. Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.
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#73. 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.
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#74. I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees,
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#75. That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.
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#78. I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.
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#79. I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art.
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#80. Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.
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#81. People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
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#82. When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.
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#83. 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.'
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#84. My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.
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#87. 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.
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#88. I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I'd moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I'd just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.
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#89. I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.
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#90. But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.
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#91. When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.
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#92. Laughing can serve you in dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out.
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#93. It's a lot of working out, you know, and you don't get to eat all the things you wanna eat.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
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#96. 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?
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#97. New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.
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#98. 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.
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#99. The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.
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#100. 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.
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