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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ryan Gosling

Hard Work

Good

Sleep

" I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me. "

" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "

" 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 don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it. "

Ryan Gosling

Real

Just

" I left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies. "

" I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. "

Ryan Gosling

Teacher

My Life

" I did what I had to do to get where I wanted to go. I had unearned confidence. "

" 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 grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

" It's not like I set out to be 'the indie guy.' "

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

" You learn from all directors, all these guys. "

" If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope. "

" I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is. "

" 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. "

" This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada. "

" I got a Twitter because some guy was pretending to be me. "

" I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way. "

" Women are better than men. "

" I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel like one of the things that I watched that I felt was really helpful in some way but, more than anything, is worth mentioning was this film 'Boogie Man.' It's a documentary about Lee Atwater. "

Ryan Gosling

Way

Man

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

" 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. "

" If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. "

Ryan Gosling

Doing

Laugh

" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "

Ryan Gosling

Grew

Really

" I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that. "