Top 100 Ryan Reynolds Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I don’t like seeing the stuff that’s not polished. It’s harder for me to step away from it and watch that.”

— Ryan Reynolds

52. “Every time I’ve gotten myself into trouble, it’s because I’m choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.”

— Ryan Reynolds

53. “I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it’s just tough and almost emotionally violent – for anyone, I think – to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.”

— Ryan Reynolds

54. “I’m pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.”

— Ryan Reynolds

55. “There’s nothing my brothers and I didn’t put a hole in. We turned our home into a Wiffle house.”

— Ryan Reynolds

56. “I don’t necessarily need 400 pounds on my back in the squat rack, and then take a picture of myself and send it out to my Twitter followers, ‘Part of the 400 pound club today.’”

— Ryan Reynolds

57. “When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.”

— Ryan Reynolds

58. “Everyone thinks their baby is a genius. People find it delightfully refreshing when I tell them, My baby? Totally average. Like, 100 percent average.”

— Ryan Reynolds

59. “Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.”

— Ryan Reynolds

60. “I would sooner be prime minister of the moon than run another marathon. I’ve been really lucky. I didn’t have any toenails fall off or anything disgusting like that. I still have all three nipples.”

— Ryan Reynolds

61. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

63. “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

64. “You know, there’s nobody where I’ve said, ‘Man, I really want that guy’s career.’ I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.”

— Ryan Reynolds

65. “If you’re going to commit to that, you’re going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.”

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

67. “I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?”

— Ryan Reynolds

68. “It’s a lot of working out, you know, and you don’t get to eat all the things you wanna eat.”

— Ryan Reynolds

69. “He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.”

— Ryan Reynolds

70. “It’s a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.”

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

72. “I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It’s the ‘biz’ part of showbiz.”

— Ryan Reynolds

73. “I’ve always just liked working. I like being a working actor.”

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

75. “I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it’s important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There’s a lot at stake.”

— Ryan Reynolds

76. “Bringing any movie together is a minor miracle.”

— Ryan Reynolds

77. “I can’t say I’ve ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that’s what keeps me going, and that’s a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.”

— Ryan Reynolds

78. “Guys are lucky: We can wear a suit over and over, just with different shirts and ties.”

— Ryan Reynolds

79. “I’ve had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.”

— Ryan Reynolds

80. “Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It’s not necessarily like an audition. They’ve seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it’s a matter of “what is your take on a character”?”

— Ryan Reynolds

81. “Four months after we finished shooting, I’d been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat – actually in London – and he’s sitting there and goes, ‘Wow, I just can’t believe how ripped you are.’”

— Ryan Reynolds

82. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

83. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

84. “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

85. “I firmly believe that you can’t manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.”

— Ryan Reynolds

86. “I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.”

— Ryan Reynolds

87. “If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean – words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.”

— Ryan Reynolds

88. “When your dad’s a cop, calling 911 is really just like calling Dad at work.”

— Ryan Reynolds

89. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

90. “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

91. “I’m just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He’s such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he’s in.”

— Ryan Reynolds

92. “I had a lot of different jobs between fifteen and nineteen. I’d moved out of my house way, way younger than I should have. So I was living out on my own with my brother when I’d just turned sixteen. I did busboy stuff, and worked in warehouses, and did odd jobs, and stuff. I earned me some Pesos.”

— Ryan Reynolds

93. “A well-tailored suit is important – and I don’t like wearing belts with mine – it should be tailored to your body.”

— Ryan Reynolds

94. “That’s why you and I had friction? God, I always thought it was ’cause, ’cause I fooled around with your daughter freshman year.”

— Ryan Reynolds

95. “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.”

— Ryan Reynolds

96. “I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.”

— Ryan Reynolds

97. “It’s tough. It’s very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It’s always an exercise in restraint.”

— Ryan Reynolds

98. “You’d be hard pressed to find more drama in ‘Days of Our Lives’ than you do in an average job each day.”

— Ryan Reynolds

99. “I’ve always find that Aussies and Vancouver-ites in general just have a similar kind of attitude.”

— Ryan Reynolds

100. “I run in a pair of New Balances with a thinner sole, but they’re nothing like those barefoot shoes that show all five toes. I have a bit of a phobia about those.”

— Ryan Reynolds