Ryan Kwanten Quotes

• Money has never been a huge inspiration for me.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Inspiration

• I don’t know if my sense of humor goes over Americans’ heads.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Sense

• Fortunately, now I’ve got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortunately

• I make about two movies a year outside the ‘True Blood’ schedule. I work on a great show six months a year, then outside that I get to satisfy whatever creative urges I have. It’s a great position, especially for a single guy like me.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Movies

• Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven’t got enough money and enough time, so that’s always going to be an element in filmmaking.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I like to have a hectic schedule.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schedule

• I don’t necessarily find superheroes in general, for me, that appealing. I’d much prefer to play, if I was to be cast in a superhero film, I’d prefer to play the villain because there’s a reason, there’s a motive behind their madness.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Find

• As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don’t care how much of a genius you are, if you don’t have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you’re not going to survive.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rejection

• I love acting, so it’s easy when you have a passion for it. I’ve always found the harder you work, the luckier you get.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Acting

• I never want to be that guy at a dinner table saying, ‘I wish I could have dessert.’ I actually went through a stage when I would order dessert first.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never, Want

• I’m not a big fan of the gym, I do lots of outdoor aerobics – yoga, swimming, running – but I kinda hate talking about it. We have a term in Australia, it makes you sound like a wanker.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Big, Fan

• I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I’m in a confined space with too many people. It’s not like I freak out or anything, it’s just that I’m far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sort, Used

• I moved to L.A., and people said that I would never find work, that I would never find good friends, and I feel like I was fortunate enough to find the work, but it wouldn’t mean anything unless I had a group of people who could appreciate it.

   

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target – and future.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home

• I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pride

• I’m definitely an elbow-room guy.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Definitely

• I’m glad acting sunk its teeth into me, because now I can’t imagine doing anything else.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acting

• I’m fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water – my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fortune

• I’ve been acting for a long time now, but as narcissistic as this sounds – and I don’t mean it to sound – every time I see my name up there, there is real sense of pride.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Acting

• I’m very much a masochist at heart.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart

Ryan Kwanten (35)

Birth:	28th November, 1976
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor

About

Ryan Kwanten is an Australian actor. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 on the Australian soap-opera Home and Away. After his stint ended he joined the American teen-oriented drama Summerland portraying Jay Robertson. In 2008, he was cast as Jason Stackhouse in True Blood.

Related Authors

• Tom Keith
• Johnny Weissmuller
• Larry Rivers
• Ricky Nelson
• Robert Ryan
• Stanley Tucci
• Richard Briers
• Andrew McCarthy
• Kip Pardue
• John Callahan

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 29th March

Births

• 1949 - Pauline Marois
• 1927 - Martin Fleischmann
• 1959 - Perry Farrell
• 1931 - Norman Tebbit
• 1936 - Richard Rodney Bennett

Deaths

• 1970 - Vera Brittain
• 1991 - Lee Atwater
• 1912 - Robert Falcon Scott
• 2005 - Mitch Hedberg
• 1934 - Otto Hermann Kahn