Quotes from Ryan Reynolds

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

It's just that... working on 'Green Lantern,' I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor.

I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.

I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they're nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.'

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?

My career has been an inch at a time.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'

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.

Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.

I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.

We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.