Quotes By Ryan Reynolds

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

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.'

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

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.

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.

Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

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?

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

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

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

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.

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.

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