Top 66 Ryan Reynolds Quotes

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.

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

It’s very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It’s always an exercise in restraint.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, ‘You don’t have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!’

My career has been an inch at a time.

I’m terrified that I’m genetically predisposed to only having boys. That’s frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I’m not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

I just love bikes. It’s not the safest passion to have, but I guess it’s better than Russian roulette.

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.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

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.’

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.

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.

I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

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.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

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.

The stunts on the ground I can do, but I’ve never been good with heights.

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.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It’s you against Darwin.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they’ll give me six takes, I’d love to do it.

I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.

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!

It’s a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

There’s nothing my brothers and I didn’t put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.

I don’t personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I don’t get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

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.

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.

I’ve had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

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.

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.

I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it’s the first place I’ll go.

When your dad’s a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.

I’m sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It’s gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

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’.

I’m six foot two. If I need security around me, there’s a problem.

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.

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.

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

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.

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.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

I’m a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It’s not any kind of heavy lifting.

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.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.

My very worst day on ‘Green Lantern’ was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on ‘Buried.’

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.

Even if my father wasn’t speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

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.

If you’re going to commit to that, you’re going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that’s why it makes a great Christmas gift. There’s a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it’s from a person that thinks very highly of you.

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.

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they’re not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

A nicely fitted two-button suit is the best thing any guy can have. Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.