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" I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall. "

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" I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things. "

Ryan Reynolds

Age

Information

Think

" Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It's you against Darwin. "

Ryan Reynolds

You

Think

" When I'm not training for a movie, it's more relaxed. I do a lot of running. Usually I'll run four to six miles about three times a week. You try to eat right, but you don't always. "

" I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out. "

Ryan Reynolds

Day

Judgment

" Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out. "

" My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. "

" I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. "

" We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game. "

Ryan Reynolds

Never

Game

" Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them. "

" A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service. "

Ryan Reynolds

Guy

Craft

" There's an old saying that you don't ever finish a movie, you abandon it, and I really believe that. I never walk away from a take and pat myself on the back. "

" I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. "

" When your dad's a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've had an alarming amount of concussions. "

" I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with? "

" I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. "

Ryan Reynolds

Vancouver

British

" 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. "

Ryan Reynolds

Creative

Insecurity

" 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. "

" I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive. "

" I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received. "

Ryan Reynolds

Brother

Birthday

" Are you stalking me? Because that would be super. "

" The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they're not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow. "