If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes. Ryan Reynolds More Quotes by Ryan Reynolds More Quotes From Ryan Reynolds 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 brotherfatherthinking 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 comedyproblemsatisfaction 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. Ryan Reynolds importantnightpeople I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know? Ryan Reynolds bigger-betterscaryamerica 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 daughtergodyears 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 trainingrunningtrying As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it. Ryan Reynolds angelkidsthinking We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape. Ryan Reynolds trainingshapesmonths I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that. Ryan Reynolds hollywoodbookthinking I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction. Ryan Reynolds villainbelieveway Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film. Ryan Reynolds filmtogetherdirectors 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 unorthodoxdifferentstuff I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is. Ryan Reynolds whatever-it-takescare I don't know if you've ever had insomnia, but it's a really terrible feeling when it's days and weeks on end. It was kind of awful. Ryan Reynolds awfulfeelingsinsomnia Too much intensity can be a bad thing. Ryan Reynolds intensitybad-thingstoo-much I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz. Ryan Reynolds boxesofficethinking It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through. Ryan Reynolds truthfulsquaresimportant I'm not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place. Ryan Reynolds hockeycanadafans 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 disciplineimportantthinking When the curtain opens, I turn on this knucklehead, and he kind of takes over and goes away again once I walk off set, that’s that great self-defense mechanism. Ryan Reynolds entertainment
