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" 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. "
Ryan Reynolds
Sometimes
Need
Think
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" My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something. "
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" 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. "
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" If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing. "
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" Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties. "
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" I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. "
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" I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times. "
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" Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. "
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" The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights. "
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" I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem. "
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" I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey. "
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" I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving. "
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" I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff. "
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" 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. "
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" My career has been an inch at a time. "
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Been
Time
" I think there's escapist moviemaking, and we want to be captivated and taken away. If it's done right, you can craft an incredible film. There have been superhero films that I think are brilliant pieces of art. "
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You
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" A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting. "
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Live
Baby
Action
" I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now. "
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" 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. "
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Green
Book
Know
" I've always just liked working. I like being a working actor. "
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Always
Like
Working
" A well-tailored suit is important - and I don't like wearing belts with mine - it should be tailored to your body. "
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" My very worst day on 'Green Lantern' was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on 'Buried.' "
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" We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape. "
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" A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Insecurity
Me
" Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles. "
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