Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor, musician, and producer. He began his career as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Cluband went on to appear in other family entertainment programs including Are You Afraid of the Dark?and Goosebumps. He starred in the television series Breaker Highas Sean Hanlon and Young Herculesas the title role. His first starring role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in The Believer, and he then built a reputation for starring in independent...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 November 1980
CityLondon, Canada
CountryCanada
There is this idea in Hollywood, and I've seen it work for people, where the unspoken rule is 'Do two for them and one for yourself.' And that's kind of considered a fact. I've never really found that to be true for me. I've gotten more opportunities out of working on things I believed in than I ever did on things that weren't special to me.
I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
I sometimes forget to have breakfast in the morning, but when I actually buy a box of cereal, I will probably eat it not only for breakfast but also as a snack later on.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
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.
I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.
I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.
I feel like everything has happened naturally.
Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.