A lot of love stories, when they come to the end, they end. We kind of pick up the storyline, and I figure that's what makes it interesting.
For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.
Freedom is such a gift.
Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.
I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way.
I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more.
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.
I feel like everything has happened naturally.
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
I just have my own taste, and I just try and stick with that. I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can for as long as I have an opportunity to.
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
I think we just knew that we had a movie when Rachel walked in the room.
I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.
I tried to find something real in essentially something that's science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.
I try not to discriminate against genres.
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
I wanted to play a character that had clarity and knew what they wanted; I felt the distilled difference between myself and the character.
I worked building furniture for the film that was really used. I worked with a man named Walter Smith, and we worked together for like two months.
I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
If I eat a huge meal and I can get the girl to rub my belly, I think that's about as romantic as I can think of.
If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
It was more important to me to understand what it's like to be this Jewish kid who felt he was so different at such a young age. I feel the story is about a kid who came to hate through love, so I felt I had to learn why he loved this thing so much that he also apparently hated it.
You know us crazy kids. We'll do anything crazy to our hair.
Ryan's first big break came in January 1993 when open auditions were held in Montreal for
2005's "Who To Do" list on Canada's MuchMusic network named Ryan #2 on the list for the males.
For the film The Notebook, Ryan had to lose the beard and 20lbs he'd had as the older Noah and come back to play the young Noah.
Ryan's middle name is Thomas, which is also his father's first name.
Ryan has appeared at Los Angeles' Cat Club, performing his own songs.
Ryan was singled out from among 150 other actors, for what would become his breakthrough film role in Henry Bean's The Believer.
Ryan repeatedly resisted offers of teen flicks and WB-friendly TV pilots.
Ryan was raised in a Mormon household.
Ryan's favorite musician is Chet Baker.
Ryan and two other guys have opened a restaurant called Tagine located at 132 N. Robertson Blvd, Beverly Hills.
Ryan's favorite food is calamari.
Ryan loves Jazz.
Ryan's natural hair color is blonde.
Ryan's parents are divorced.
Ryan enjoys being able to go to edges he wouldn’t normally get to in a conventional drama.
Ryan's astrological sign is Scorpio.
Ryan is an advocate for the humane treatment of animals.
Ryan said that there were no sparks between him & Rachel back then when they were filming "The Notebook."
Ryan previously dated actress, Sandra Bullock, his co-star from the film Murder By Numbers.
One of Ryan's mentors is Henry Bean, the writer of "The Believer."
The craziest thing Ryan has done for love is The Notebook.
Ryan is involved with The One campaign.
Ryan won Choice Movie Actor & Choice Breakout Performance Male at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards.
Ryan was born in the same hospital (in a different year though) as his The Notebook co-star Rachel McAdams - St. Joseph's Hospital in London, Ontario.
Ryan was picked as the 2004 Sho West Male Star of Tomorrow.
Ryan bought the Jeep Cherokee driven by Ben Chaplin in "Murder by Numbers" from the set of the movie.
Ryan built the kitchen table featured in "The Notebook" in preparation for his role as Noah.
Ryan went to Lester B. Pearson High School in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
While being on MMC, Ryan lived with Justin Timberlake and his mother.
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