Ryan Phillippe
Ryan Phillippe
Matthew Ryan Phillippe is an American actor, director, and writer. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54. In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including Gosford Park, Crash, and war drama Flags of Our Fathers, Breach, and Stop-Loss. In 2010, Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth10 September 1974
CityNew Castle, DE
CountryUnited States of America
I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do.
A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.
I only want to make movies I want to see. That may mean my career is somewhat limited, but that is my version of integrity. No matter how it performs or how it's received, I can be okay with it.
I've made 30-plus films over 20 years. And in my opinion, five of them are good,
I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.
My sisters are my favorite people on earth.
The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.
Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.
On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly.