Ryan Phillippe Quotes

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Business, Time, Age, Wife, Career, Kids, Parents, Schools)

"I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Brother, Sisters)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Pretty, World)

"I learn so much more in an ensemble movie."
- Ryan Phillippe

"I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Actors, Diversity)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Movies, Time, Now, Want)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Movies, People, Sense, Talk, Theater, Want)

"I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Time, Film, First)

"I won't make a movie for money ever again."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Money)

"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
(Related: People, Environment, Kids, Open, Separation)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People, Being, Compliment, Ugly, Want)

"I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Want)

"You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Money, Movies)

"Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Home, Life, Kids, Man)

"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
(Related: Business)

"But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People, Ideas, Control, Sense, Want)

"But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns."
- Ryan Phillippe

"At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Actor)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Movies, Opportunity, Acting, Career)

"A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Time, Thought, Film)

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Children)

"What's more ludicrous is the whole idea of me being jealous and competitive."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Idea, Being)

"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!"
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Living, Shadow, Want)

"To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal."
- Ryan Phillippe

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Money, Life, Care, Difficulties, Film)

"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
(Related: Soul, Now, Rap)

"I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Being, Day)

"To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me."
- Ryan Phillippe

"My sisters are my favorite people on earth."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People, Earth, Favorite, Sisters)

"People are sheepish when they approach me."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People)

"Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Movies)

"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Hollywood)

"The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Idea)

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: People)

"There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts."
- Ryan Phillippe

"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."
- Ryan Phillippe
(Related: Film, First, October, Production)