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
I did this scene in 'Lars and the Real Girl' where I was in a room full of old ladies who were knitting, and it was an all-day scene, so they showed me how. It was one of the most relaxing days of my life.
I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.
I started reading all these men's magazines, trying to follow all the tips: what you're supposed to wear, what you're supposed to have, things you're supposed to say, and all the exercises you're supposed to do.
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 went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.
Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.
I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I certainly enjoy.
I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
I worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two months.
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 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 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.
If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
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.