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

Ryan Gosling Quotes

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

On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It’s sad, because he just doesn’t have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn’t seem to be enough in this case.

— Ryan Gosling

You can’t make a movie for everybody. You can’t go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you’re going to.

— 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

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 started reading all these men’s magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you’re supposed to wear, what you’re supposed to have, things you’re supposed to say, and all the exercises you’re supposed to do.

— Ryan Gosling

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I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn’t. So I thought I’d move to New York.

— 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

In New York, you’re forced to deal with life; it’s there in front of you on a daily basis.

— Ryan Gosling

Women are mad at me. A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’ I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.

— Ryan Gosling

It’s not good just to have life experience of film-making and that’s all. It’s hard to play a real person when you’ve been in jets and town cars for three years.

— 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

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

— 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

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, Id get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didnt know everyone was laughing at me.

— Ryan Gosling

You know us crazy kids. We’ll do anything crazy to our hair.

— Ryan Gosling

The thing that’s so exciting when you’re making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

— Ryan Gosling

I’m Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

— Ryan Gosling

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

— Ryan Gosling

I’m Canadian. I think that’s it. When you’re a Canadian, you’re always watching America from the outside, from afar.

— Ryan Gosling

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