Ryan Phillippe Quotes

• You know, social issue movies don’t make a lot of money.

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• Where you raise your children isn’t as important as how you raise your children.

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• What’s more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive.

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• 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!

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• To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

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• To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

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• There’s always difficulties and challenges in every life, I don’t care how much money you make, where you live… and that’s something this film speaks to.

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• 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.

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• There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven’t found too many great scripts.

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• The point is to expand the scope of what a movie can possibly mean or be, to get people involved because they’re artistic or understand the point of the material, not just because they fit a certain bill aesthetically.

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• The idea of doing something that you’ve seen a thousand times before doesn’t appeal to me.

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• Tarantino’s stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

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• Tarantino’s movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

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• People are sheepish when they approach me.

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• My sisters are my favorite people on earth.

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• My first film goes into production in October. It’s called White Boy Shuffle and it’s based on a novel about a young black kid and it’s sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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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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