Quotes from Ryan Phillippe

What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.

It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.

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.

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

There's always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don't care how much money you make, where you live... and that's something this film speaks to.

Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

People are sheepish when they approach me.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.