Quotes from Ryan Phillippe

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they're artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

I still have sadness and complicated feelings about my divorce. But how beneficial is it to keep hanging onto those feelings? If someone lives through an accident, his aim is to become better and healthy. My aim is always to progress - to make better decisions and be a better father, a better boyfriend, a better husband if it happens again.

On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It's some of the best stuff around.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

My sisters are my favorite people on earth.