Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor, director, and writer. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including Gosford Park, Crash, and war drama Flags of Our Fathers, Breach, and Stop-Loss. In 2010, Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 September 1974
CityNew Castle, DE
CountryUnited States of America
We have a great job where you get to put out something positive like this that might make people think, that might make people feel.
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
People often say that even if you're playing a character who's not redemptive, you have to like the character, which I disagree.
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.
People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
People are sheepish when they approach me.
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.
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.
My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
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.
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 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.
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!