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
There’s something messed up with my brain.
Ryan Gosling
It’s not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to – to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor.
Ryan Gosling
Muscles. We’re talking about muscles? They’re like pets, basically, and they’re not worth it. They’re just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don’t, they just go away. They run away.
Ryan Gosling
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
My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ to the bride. We’d do it right before the garter ceremony.
Ryan Gosling
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
Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I’m the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio’s face. Actually, I don’t know if I’m the pigeon, or I’m Fabio’s face. Depends on the day, I guess.
Ryan Gosling
It was a strange experience, making a love story and not getting along with your co-star in any way.
Ryan Gosling
I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.
Ryan Gosling
I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good.
Ryan Gosling
I’m just sort of making it up as I go along.
Ryan Gosling
‘The Nice Guys’ fulfilled my 1970s fantasy.
Ryan Gosling
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
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
You can only be yourself, and it sounds cheesy, but when it comes to filmmaking, there’s really nowhere to hide.
Ryan Gosling
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
Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.
Ryan Gosling
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
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
Ryan Gosling
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
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
I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride.
Ryan Gosling
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
You feel good if you’ve done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think.
Ryan Gosling
My mother had to tailor what I watched.
Ryan Gosling
I really feel like if they’d have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I’d have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that’s disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life.
Ryan Gosling
I make a mean tuna fish sandwich.
Ryan Gosling
When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger’s seat because you’re not being watched, and you can just be the watcher.
Ryan Gosling
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
We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it.
Ryan Gosling
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
It’s interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it’s perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway.
Ryan Gosling
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
I don’t like to be entertaining. I don’t like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
Ryan Gosling
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
Ryan Gosling
If people want to put me up on their walls, I’ll love it.
Ryan Gosling
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
I don’t believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.
Ryan Gosling
I guess there’s something about you don’t know why you’re attracted to a character, but you’re attracted to them enough to want to – it’s like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don’t know why; you just want to dance. It’s hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it.
Ryan Gosling
Most movies, you have to try and forget you’re making a movie, because there are trailers and booms and lights and marks, and it’s everywhere.
Ryan Gosling
I don’t know enough about manliness to define it.
Ryan Gosling
Acting isn’t that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
Ryan Gosling
When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie ‘Dick Tracy.’ Burger King had all this ‘Dick Tracy’ stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.
Ryan Gosling
This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching ‘Boyz n the Hood,’ and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it’s so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I’m a little white kid from Canada.
Ryan Gosling
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
I think the ‘Law of Attraction’ comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.
Ryan Gosling
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
Show me a man who wouldn’t give it all up for Emma Stone, and I’ll show you a liar.
Ryan Gosling
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
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
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
Ryan Gosling
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