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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 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. "

Ryan Gosling

Family

Women

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" For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it. "

" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

" I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies. "

" 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. "

" Freedom is such a gift. "

Ryan Gosling

Freedom

Gift

" When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt. "

" I just sort of feel like John Hughes movies are perfect, but they're missing violence. If they just had some violence, they'd be perfect. "

" 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 left Canada to come to Hollywood to make movies. "

" There's something messed up with my brain. "

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

" You learn from all directors, all these guys. "

" When you drive, you can kind of put your identity aside in the passenger's seat because you're not being watched, and you can just be the watcher. "

" 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. "

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

Ryan Gosling

Now

Movies

" 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. "

" My mom was really cool. "

" I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life. "

" Watching myself. Watching the people around me. There was some part of me that was there as a kid and growing up and living my life, but there was also some part of me that was watching it all happen from the nosebleeds. "

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

" What's nice with comedy is that you know it's working if it's funny. "

" I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it. "

" 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. "

" When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve. "

" 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. "

" The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it. "

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

" 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

End

" I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does. "

Ryan Gosling

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Myself