I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Years ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Too much TV hurts movies.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

I really am a fan of Ye’s music.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I’m not Russell Crowe. I’m not going to do a period piece.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

I’ve known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was ‚Along Came Polly.‘

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

I’m a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Well, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Actor’s life is very long.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.