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" 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. "

Ryan Gosling

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" I'm just sort of making it up as I go along. "

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

" A car is only trouble at a certain point. "

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

" 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. "

" My uncle was an Elvis impersonator - his name was Perry, and he went by 'Elvis Perry' - and my work as a wedding singer landed me a spot in his act. "

Ryan Gosling

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

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

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

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

Ryan Gosling

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" My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better. "

Ryan Gosling

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Now

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

" 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. "

" I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit. "

" If I have any particular appeal to women, maybe it's because I listen more than other guys do and appreciate how they think and feel about things. "

" There's good things about going to church. "

" I've always liked women more. I was brought up by my mother and older sister. I found my way into dance class. "

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

Ryan Gosling

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" 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. "

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