Quotes from Ryan Reynolds

I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.

You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.

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.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

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

Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin.

I don't expect success. I prepare for it.

I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

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

The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

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

I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

Laughing can serve you in the dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out. -Ryan Reynolds

If it weren't so off-putting for my co-workers. I'd wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

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.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

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'.