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
I feel there is something nice about not talking. Like you can say more by actually saying less.
-Ryan Gosling
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
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
-Ryan Gosling
There is this idea in Hollywood, and I’ve seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is ‘Do two for them and one for yourself.’ And that’s kind of considered a fact. I’ve never really found that to be true for me. I’ve gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren’t special to me.
-Ryan Gosling
I don’t think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.
-Ryan Gosling
Talking about muscles. They’re like pets basically. They’re 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 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
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
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
Freedom is such a gift.
-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
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
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
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
You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self.
-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
To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.
-Ryan Gosling
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
-Ryan Gosling