Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor, musician, and producer. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Cluband went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark?and Goosebumps. He starred in the television series Breaker Highas Sean Hanlon and Young Herculesas the title role. His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer, and he then built a reputation for starring in independent...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 November 1980
CityLondon, Canada
CountryCanada
Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip.
You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
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.
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor.
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.
I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.
Talking about muscles. They're like pets basically. They're 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.
The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.