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" I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself. "

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" I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall. "

" I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive. "

" It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power. "

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

" I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. "

" I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient. "

" A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. "

Ryan Reynolds

Guy

Craft

" I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go. "

" When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people. "

" By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'. "

" 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. "

Ryan Reynolds

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" As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ryan Reynolds

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" Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them. "

" 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 find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet. "

" I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake. "

" 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 read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it. "

" There's nothing my brothers and I didn't put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house. "

" I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings. "

" 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! "

" When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. "

" Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. "

Ryan Reynolds

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Think

" I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is. "

" There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy. "

" 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. "

" It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint. "