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" 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. "

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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

Experience

" I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

" I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life. "

" If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of. "

" Some of the styles of dance in 'La La Land' I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid. "

" I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time. "

Ryan Gosling

Point

Broadway

" I wish I could be Peter Falk. "

" I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. "

Ryan Gosling

Teacher

My Life

" Maybe in my life I sort of put myself in situations that were chaotic, outside of my life. "

" I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people. "

" Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off. "

" Actors become very professional and proficient about watching out for each other's light and not stepping on each other's lines. "

" This is going to sound ridiculous, but I remember watching 'Boyz n the Hood,' and there is a scene where Cuba Gooding, Jr. gets pressed against a car by a police officer, and he starts crying because it's so humiliating. I remember thinking in that moment that I could totally identify with him, and I'm a little white kid from Canada. "

" 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. "

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

" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "

" I always wanted to do a comedy, but I wanted to pick the right one. But it came down to working with Steve Carell. I've wanted to work with him since I met him years ago as a kid. "

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

" I don't really have that much angst to get rid of. "

" 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. "

" It's not good just to have life experience of film-making and that's all. It's hard to play a real person when you've been in jets and town cars for three years. "

" 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

Kind

Know

" I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. "

" I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good. "

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

" I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies. "

Ryan Gosling

Got

Older

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

Ryan Gosling

Grew

Really

" 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 have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to. "

" 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. "

Ryan Gosling

Working

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