Quotes from Ryan Gosling

For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

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.

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've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.

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

People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.

I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.

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

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride.

I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.

I'm going to make a movie about 'Hey Girl.'

If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

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 think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

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.