My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies.
— Ryan Reynolds
There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.
You'd be hard pressed to find more drama in 'Days of Our Lives' than you do in an average job each day.
I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.
Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.
I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.
My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.
I just like to look beautiful sometimes.
I have daddy issues. So I keep tissues on me at all times.
I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.
I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!
I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?
Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.
We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.
There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your own life. You can literally go watch yourself - where you went last night, what you did, what the things that people presuppose about you. It's kind of crazy.
I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff.
I did as much as I could in Vancouver. You can only play so many ex-'Falcon Crest' sons in so many movies of the week before you burn out.
I'm a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.
I'll say this: The media wasn't invited to my marriage, and they're definitely not invited into the divorce.
I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.
My career has been an inch at a time.
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.
I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it.
I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.
When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.
My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
If you're going to commit to that, you're going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.
I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things.
I read the 'Deadpool' series back in the '90s. I'm not, like, a huge comic book reader, per say, though. I'll check out 'Archie' when I'm in the grocery line, but that's about it.
It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.
I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.
I love Canada. It makes a nice hat for America. When America runs out of water, it's the first place I'll go.
Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.
Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.
By the time I came to L.A. I'd already cried on movies of the week with two of the women from 'Knots Landing'.
Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.
Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'
We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges.
When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.
I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings.
It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.
It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.
