Ryan Gosling

“I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.”

“I'd like to see some Broadway shows at some point in time.”

“There's something messed up with my brain.”

“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.”

“I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.”

“A car is only trouble at a certain point.”

“When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'”

“The people of Disney are so incredibly amazing; they are so nice.”

“I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.”

“I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.”

“I was highly influenced by violence.”

“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.”

“If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.”

“I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.”

“I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.”

“Women are better than men.”

“I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.”

“I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.”

“I felt like I was going crazy as a kid. I wanted to be man, get a job.”

“For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.”