Top 40 Ryan Phillippe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Home life’s great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I’ve reached this sort of wonderful precipice.”

— Ryan Phillippe

2. “My sisters are my favorite people on earth.”

— Ryan Phillippe

3. “On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.”

— Ryan Phillippe

4. “I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.”

— Ryan Phillippe

5. “It’s nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I’ve never considered that that’s how I might be categorized. I guess it’s better than being called ugly.”

— Ryan Phillippe

6. “Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.”

— Ryan Phillippe

7. “The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.”

— Ryan Phillippe

8. “To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.”

— Ryan Phillippe

9. “It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.”

— Ryan Phillippe

10. “People are sheepish when they approach me.”

— Ryan Phillippe

11. “I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn’t come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.”

— Ryan Phillippe

12. “Working in South Africa and the people in Johannesburg get under your skin. It stays with you. It’s a place I want to take my children back to. It’s a place that filled me with great joy and inspiration but also sadness. I think it’s one of the most complex places on the planet.”

— Ryan Phillippe

13. “I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it’s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.”

— Ryan Phillippe

14. “People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don’t understand. I’m not a movie star, I’m an actor.”

— Ryan Phillippe

15. “Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.”

— Ryan Phillippe

16. “My first film goes into production in October. It’s called White Boy Shuffle and it’s based on a novel about a young black kid and it’s sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.”

— Ryan Phillippe

17. “The world’s gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.”

— Ryan Phillippe

18. “Tarantino’s stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.”

— Ryan Phillippe

19. “The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don’t like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn’t want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn’t own.”

— Ryan Phillippe

20. “I won’t make a movie for money ever again.”

— Ryan Phillippe

21. “You know, social issue movies don’t make a lot of money.”

— Ryan Phillippe

22. “I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren’t clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.”

— Ryan Phillippe

23. “I am miserable when I’m in a movie I’m not proud of and a movie that I don’t want to do.”

— Ryan Phillippe

24. “Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.”

— Ryan Phillippe

25. “Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that’s more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.”

— Ryan Phillippe

26. “In my career, I’ve often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There’s so much freedom there.”

— Ryan Phillippe

27. “I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it’s received, I can be okay with it.”

— Ryan Phillippe

28. “I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.”

— Ryan Phillippe

29. “I’m really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.”

— Ryan Phillippe

30. “A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I’ll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.”

— Ryan Phillippe

31. “To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.”

— Ryan Phillippe

32. “The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.”

— Ryan Phillippe

33. “I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.”

— Ryan Phillippe

34. “But I’m not particularly comfortable around guns.”

— Ryan Phillippe

35. “I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.”

— Ryan Phillippe

36. “A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.”

— Ryan Phillippe

37. “The idea of doing something that you’ve seen a thousand times before doesn’t appeal to me.”

— Ryan Phillippe

38. “At 27, it’s great to get to a place where I’m not an actor for hire anymore.”

— Ryan Phillippe

39. “There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven’t found too many great scripts.”

— Ryan Phillippe

40. “I’ve written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I’m 30.”

— Ryan Phillippe

41. “Tarantino’s movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.”

— Ryan Phillippe

42. “But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.”

— Ryan Phillippe

43. “Where you raise your children isn’t as important as how you raise your children.”

— Ryan Phillippe

44. “There was a time – before I made movies – when I was more forgiving, but now that I’ve learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.”

— Ryan Phillippe