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• I just love bikes. It’s not the safest passion to have, but I guess it’s better than Russian roulette.

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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• I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close.

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• Are you stalking me? Because that would be super.

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• 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.

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• 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?

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• 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.

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• I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they’ll give me six takes, I’d love to do it.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• If you’re going to commit to that, you’re going to have to find some way to make it bearable and enjoyable.

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• I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• It was comical because you’re at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns.

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• 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.

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• We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.

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• When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

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• 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.

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Ryan Reynolds (20)

Birth:	23rd October, 1976
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor

About

Reynolds was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. His father, Jim, is a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tammy, is a retail salesperson. He is of Irish ancestry and was raised as a Roman Catholic. The youngest of four brothers, he graduated from Kitsilano Secondary School in Vancouver in 1994. He later attended Kwantlen Polytechnic University, also in Vancouver, until dropping out.

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