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Ryan Phillippe Quotes

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

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.

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

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

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

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.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

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

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.

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

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.

I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

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

I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.

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

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.

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

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.

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.