Quotes from Ryan Gosling

I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens.

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

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.

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free.

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

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

I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.

Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.

I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already.

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.

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

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

I wish I could be Peter Falk.

As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies.

I'm Canadian, and so American politics aren't really in my wheelhouse.

There used to be a candy called 'Bonkers,' which I believe to be the greatest candy of all time.

A car is only trouble at a certain point.

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.

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

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

My mom was really cool.