Top 100 Ryan Reynolds Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.”

— Ryan Reynolds

52. “The problem with romantic comedies is you know the ending by the poster. So they’re not movies you can keep doing over and over again expect satisfaction somehow.”

— Ryan Reynolds

53. “I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there’s going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?”

— Ryan Reynolds

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

58. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

60. “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

61. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

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

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

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Ryan Reynolds

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

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. “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

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

— 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. “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

92. “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

93. “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

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

— 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. “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

97. “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

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