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" I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines. "

Ryan Gosling

Dance

Canada

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" I don't know specifically what scenes I'd like to see violence in - I crave violence when I'm watching a John Hughes movie. "

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" I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you. "

" 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 don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor. "

" My mother had to tailor what I watched. "

" Falling in love is a narcissistic endeavor. You play the role of lover, and you find someone to act it out on. "

" 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 try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. "

" Cars can have a hypnotic effect. You can get in a car and get out and not really remember the trip. "

" 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 try not to discriminate against genres. "

" I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing. "

" I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me. "

" It's Shane Black. He's a world unto himself. His world is so fun and crazy. "

" Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor. "

" Women are better than men. "

" It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in. "

" 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

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" The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing; they are so nice. "

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

" We should get a Roomba for our Roomba. I feel bad for it because it works tirelessly, and at night I can hear it cleaning, and I just feel bad for it. "

" I was highly influenced by violence. "

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

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Grew

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" 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. "

" I think I was always bound to become two selves, if I wasn't already. "

" For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. "

Ryan Gosling

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" I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life. "

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

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "