Top 100 Ryan Reynolds Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t expect success. I prepare for it.”

— Ryan Reynolds

2. “Laughing can serve you in dark moments and even help you crawl your way back out.”

— Ryan Reynolds

3. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.”

— Ryan Reynolds

4. “Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.”

— Ryan Reynolds

5. “Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.”

— Ryan Reynolds

6. “Religion poisons everything good in this world.”

— Ryan Reynolds

7. “The ‘friend zone’ is like the penalty box of dating, only you can never get out. Once a girl decides you’re her ‘friend,’ it’s game over. You’ve become a complete non-sexual entity in her eyes, like her brother, or a lamp.”

— Ryan Reynolds

8. “I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.”

— Ryan Reynolds

9. “I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.”

— Ryan Reynolds

10. “We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.”

— Ryan Reynolds

11. “I just love bikes. It’s not the safest passion to have, but I guess it’s better than Russian roulette.”

— Ryan Reynolds

12. “I’m going to admit when I’m clueless, and I’m going to ask people for help when I don’t know the answer to something.”

— Ryan Reynolds

13. “There are so few surprises left in life. We’ve gotten so addicted to knowing. It’s the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!”

— Ryan Reynolds

14. “I just like to look beautiful sometimes.”

— Ryan Reynolds

15. “Sometimes it’s just enough to keep your body moving. I get depressed if I don’t move.”

— Ryan Reynolds

16. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

17. “I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.”

— Ryan Reynolds

18. “When you’re growing up in a family without a lot of money and four boys, it can’t always be, ‘Let’s go see a specialist, see if you’re okay.’ If you got hurt, you just walked it off.”

— Ryan Reynolds

19. “I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!”

— Ryan Reynolds

20. “I read the ‘Deadpool’ series back in the ’90s. I’m not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I’ll check out ‘Archie’ when I’m in the grocery line, but that’s about it.”

— Ryan Reynolds

21. “Wouldn’t that be an amazing super power? Knowing where to press on someone’s neck to make them immediately urinate.”

— Ryan Reynolds

22. “I don’t personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.”

— Ryan Reynolds

23. “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

24. “I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”

— Ryan Reynolds

25. “I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think.”

— Ryan Reynolds

26. “I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.”

— Ryan Reynolds

27. “I’m the guy doing calisthenics. I’m doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.”

— Ryan Reynolds

28. “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

29. “Making a mix CD – albeit slightly old school – is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.”

— Ryan Reynolds

30. “Marathon running, for me, was the most controlled test of mettle that I could ever think of. It’s you against Darwin.”

— Ryan Reynolds

31. “If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece ‘Hannah Montana’ pajamas, like, all the time!”

— Ryan Reynolds

32. “I think by take eight you’re kind of going, “Oh, wow, I don’t know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again.” That stuff is tough, and I’m also not 21 anymore. I just don’t like cement. Cement isn’t hilarious any more.”

— Ryan Reynolds

33. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

34. “I’ve done things to my body, mechanically, that I’ll never do again. I’ve done stunts that I shouldn’t have done 10, 11, 12 times. I’ve broken a ton of bones on sets.”

— Ryan Reynolds

35. “I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.”

— Ryan Reynolds

36. “I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear – something you’ll remember more down the road than a shirt.”

— Ryan Reynolds

37. “Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that’s why it makes a great Christmas gift. There’s a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it’s from a person that thinks very highly of you.”

— Ryan Reynolds

38. “It’s funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I’ve had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it’s just because they don’t behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.”

— Ryan Reynolds

39. “My very worst day on ‘Green Lantern’ was nowhere near as difficult as my finest day on ‘Buried.’”

— Ryan Reynolds

40. “You always get that one customer that decides that your name is boy. Or something. It certainly reinforces a respect I already had for people that are in the hospitality industry.”

— Ryan Reynolds

41. “I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they’ll give me six takes, I’d love to do it.”

— Ryan Reynolds

42. “When I do comedy, my brain sort of locks up in the infinite possibilities. That’s where I get sort of lost. I think, “Oh, there are six other jokes that we could say here!” I feel more at home with drama.”

— Ryan Reynolds

43. “Even if my father wasn’t speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.”

— Ryan Reynolds

44. “I’ll say this: The media wasn’t invited to my marriage, and they’re definitely not invited into the divorce.”

— Ryan Reynolds

45. “People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.”

— Ryan Reynolds

46. “I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn’t. I really need to be more patient.”

— Ryan Reynolds

47. “I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it’s the first place I’ll go.”

— Ryan Reynolds

48. “I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.”

— Ryan Reynolds

49. “But if you do, then it’s a high class problem to have. And if you do, you’re the architect of that problem. There’s no one else to blame but yourself. You’ve kept doing the same kinds of movies and that’s what they want to see.”

— Ryan Reynolds

50. “I’m six foot two. If I need security around me, there’s a problem.”

— Ryan Reynolds