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" In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis. "
Ryan Gosling
New
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New York
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" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "
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" I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I think the 'Law of Attraction' comes from a rich, white, privileged perspective. "
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" If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible. "
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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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" My mom was really cool. "
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" 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 really have that much angst to get rid of. "
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" They say never meet your heroes. But the addendum to that is 'unless they're Harrison Ford.' "
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" I don't know enough about manliness to define it. "
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Know
Enough
" I'm just sort of making it up as I go along. "
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Along
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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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More
Way
" Muscles. We're talking about muscles? They're like pets, basically, and they're not worth it. They're just not worth it. You have to feed them all the time and take care of them, and if you don't, they just go away. They run away. "
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You
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" I was very impressed by Walt Disney and the idea that you could have a dream and you could realize it to the point where people could walk around within it... It still resonates with me. I wanted to be somebody who believed in their ideas that much. "
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" I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room. "
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" Women are better than men. "
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Women
Than
Men
" 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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Know
Like
Violence
" Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men. "
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Men
Woman
Stupid
" I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job. "
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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 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've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion. "
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Age
" I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very free. "
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" When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging. "
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Discouraging
Well
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Good
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