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 would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls...
LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.
Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!
What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.
The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.
The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.
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.
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 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.
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.