Ryan Phillippe Quotes

• I won’t make a movie for money ever again.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it’s really important to me, and it will always be a part of my parenting, to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.

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  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

• 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.

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  Topics in Movies

• At 27, it’s great to get to a place where I’m not an actor for hire anymore.

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• A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it’s done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

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  Tags in Film

• But I’m not particularly comfortable around guns.

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• 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.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Topics in Business

• But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

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• I have three sisters and I’ve always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

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• I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn’t come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

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• I am miserable when I’m in a movie I’m not proud of and a movie that I don’t want to do.

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• I’ve been in this business for a long time at my age, I’ve just turned 30, and I feel like my wife’s career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we’ve both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Time

• I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

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• I’m really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

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• I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

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  Tags in Diversity

• Look at music: I’ve always loved hiphop and rap, and now there’s this whole progressive movement, with De La Soul and Mos Def, Common. It’s some of the best stuff around.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Rap

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Compliment

• My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Earth

• I’ve written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I’m 30.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Written

• 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.

  Ryan Phillippe

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Ryan Phillippe (37)

Birth:	10th September, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Matthew Ryan Phillippe, better known as Ryan Phillippe, is an American actor. After appearing on the soap opera One Life to Live, he came to fame in the late 1990s starring in a string of films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and 54.

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