Ryan Gosling

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz.

Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know?

Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on.

I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective.

My mom was really cool.

It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.'

I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I'm making 'The Blair Witch Project' - something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot.

I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.

I don't really have that much angst to get rid of.

It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy.

I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much.

What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie.

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.

I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time.

Now that I'm an actor and I have movies, press, I have more occasions to wear suits. I like wearing suits.

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.

Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.

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.

I was highly influenced by violence.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'

I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way.

I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater.

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.

I'm just sort of making it up as I go along.

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.

They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.'

There's something messed up with my brain.

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.

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

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.

I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

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.

I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.

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.

There's good things about going to church.

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.

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.

I make a mean tuna fish sandwich.

Show me a man who wouldn't give it all up for Emma Stone, and I'll show you a liar.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

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.

I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't.

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.

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.

I know that I'm with the person I'm supposed to be with.

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.

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.