Ryan Reynolds Quotes - Page 7

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.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

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

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.

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

I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

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

When I first moved to Los Angeles I came down there on a wing and a prayer in a way. I had about six weeks worth of money to make it there and that was just from doing a couple of episodes of the X-Files just to finance that trip. I got there and it is either you got to hit it or you got to go and, thankfully, I found a job.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

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 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.

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'.

The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

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

I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I've been really lucky. I didn't have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.

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

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

When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

That's why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was 'cause, 'cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.

Everybody thinks it's glamorous and this spy versus spy stuff is so exciting, but working in that industry and being a CIA operative, like a field officer, is tough. That's a difficult job that usually dismantles their lives in some capacity.

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.

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