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" As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore. "

Ryan Gosling

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" I try not to discriminate against genres. "

" I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

Ryan Gosling

Good

Myself

" When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie 'Dick Tracy.' Burger King had all this 'Dick Tracy' stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop. "

" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "

" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "

Ryan Gosling

Man

Job

" When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies. "

Ryan Gosling

Director

Movies

" People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down. "

" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

Ryan Gosling

Got

Older

" I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal. "

" I don't know enough about manliness to define it. "

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. "

" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "

" I feel like I'm always trying to make a movie about the Two Faced Man in some way. "

" I didn't want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that. "

" I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it. "

Ryan Gosling

Working

End

" I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people. "

" If Russell Crowe says that he's Noah, he's Noah. You never doubt it. If he says that he's the Gladiator, he's the Gladiator. He's every character that he says he is. I've never doubted anything that he's done. "

" It's not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to - to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor. "

" In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid. "

" I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. "

" Now that I'm an actor and I have movies, press, I have more occasions to wear suits. I like wearing suits. "

Ryan Gosling

Now

Movies

" All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me. "

" I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. "

" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

" That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience. "