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" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "
Ryan Gosling
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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'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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy. "
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" It's interesting the kind of freedom the musical form gives you. The rules are out the window. You can get impressionistic without seeming pretentious. Because it's perceived as an inherently accessible form, it gives filmmakers some leeway. "
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" I think 'Believer' and 'Leland' were such great things to have been a part of, and I learned a lot. "
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" My sister and I used to sing at weddings. We would sing 'When a Man Loves a Woman' to the bride. We'd do it right before the garter ceremony. "
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" I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were. "
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" I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is. "
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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. "
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Sleep
" 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. "
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" I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too. "
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" It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in. "
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" I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. "
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" The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. "
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" I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "
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" 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. "
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" The '70s just seemed dirty, honestly, and not in an interesting way. It's not the '80s. In fact, it's 10 less. I grew up in the '80s, so that's more of an interesting time to me. "
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" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "
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