I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I’ve just been programmed to think like a girl. – Ryan Gosling
I didn’t want to make a literal film about Detroit, because it felt like what they were experiencing was more universal than that. – Ryan Gosling
Some of the styles of dance in ‘La La Land’ I wish I had spent time on when I was a kid. – Ryan Gosling
I feel it’s important to show that one thing that you do doesn’t define you as a human being. It doesn’t mean there aren’t ramifications or you shouldn’t pay for that but its not who you are. – Ryan Gosling
It’s not easy to leave your hometown and your family and your support system and come out to Los Angeles to – to pursue a dream where the odds are not in your favor. – Ryan Gosling
I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is. – Ryan Gosling
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. – Ryan Gosling
It’s not good just to have life experience of film-making and that’s all. It’s hard to play a real person when you’ve been in jets and town cars for three years. – Ryan Gosling
I’m attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That’s my own reality, so it’s a doorway into a world for me. – Ryan Gosling
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. – Ryan Gosling
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. – Ryan Gosling
I don’t know specifically what scenes I’d like to see violence in – I crave violence when I’m watching a John Hughes movie. – Ryan Gosling
If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that’s what you hope. – Ryan Gosling
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn’t fall all the way. – Ryan Gosling
In New York, you’re forced to deal with life; it’s there in front of you on a daily basis. – Ryan Gosling
Do you remember when Fabio got hit in the face with a pigeon on the roller coaster, and it broke his nose? Sometimes I feel like I’m the pigeon, and the Internet is Fabio’s face. Actually, I don’t know if I’m the pigeon, or I’m Fabio’s face. Depends on the day, I guess. – Ryan Gosling
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
For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale… but an interesting one. I don’t know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. – Ryan Gosling
You feel good if you’ve done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. – Ryan Gosling
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me. – Ryan Gosling
I don’t like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that’s it. You think you’re just getting started, and then it’s over. – Ryan Gosling
I don’t believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too. – Ryan Gosling
All my characters are me. I’m not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think ‘I wonder what that feels like.’ Because for me, they’re all me. – Ryan Gosling
There’s a lot of pressure to be the lead of a film. I have done it. It’s not my favorite way to work. – Ryan Gosling