Ryan Gosling movie quotes

View Quote I always wanted to be... mysterious. Talk too much. It's my problem. Like right now.

View Quote There's nothing she can't do

View Quote Wow! You're not gonna believe this. Nothing happened!

View Quote [repeated line] **** Chet.

View Quote I work in a cesspool. Sex, more sex. My wife, she used to say I make a living off rumpy-pumpy. Whatever. She was English. I don't know what the **** it means either.

View Quote All right, which one of you ****-and-balls wants to make twenty bucks?

View Quote [about jazz] It's conflict and it's compromise, and it's just...it's new every time. It's brand new every night. It's very, very exciting! And it's dying. It's dying, Mia. It's dying on the vine. And the world says, "Let it die. It had its time." Well, not on my watch.

View Quote That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

View Quote [singing] City of stars,Are you shining just for me?City of stars,There's so much that I can't see.Who knows,Is this the start of something wonderful and new?Or one more dreamThat I cannot make true?

View Quote When I see something I like, I gotta have it...I love it.

View Quote You're gonna kill me woman! I need sleep, I need food, to regain my strength!

View Quote You know I want to give you all the things you want. But I can't. Because they're gone. They're broken.

View Quote All the best memories are hers.

View Quote He named you. Must be special.

View Quote Luv: I'm here for Mr. Wallace. I'm Luv.
K: He named you. You must be special.

View Quote [Looking at his bonus check of $47 million] So, I was right. I took a rash of shit for 2 years, but I was right and everyone was wrong. And, yeah, I got a big bonus for it. Sue me, you know? It's a lot of money, I know. I can feel you judging me. That's palpable. But, hey, I never said I was the hero of this story.

View Quote "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer."

View Quote Let me put it this way: I'm standing in front of a burning house, and I'm offering you fire insurance on it.

View Quote This one is something a friend of mine said to me. "You have to believe that life is more than the sum of its parts, kiddo." I remember it right now to the "kiddo" part. But when I think about what she said, the same thing always comes into my head. What if you can't put the pieces together in the first place?

View Quote I think there are two ways you can see the world. You either see the sadness that's behind everything or you choose to keep it all out.

View Quote You want a why. Well, maybe there isn't one. Maybe...maybe this is just something that happened.

View Quote I'm wildly unhappy, and I'm trying to buy it, and it's not working.

View Quote The war between the sexes is over and we won, okay? We won the second women started doing pole dancing for exercise. But even though we won, they still deserve our respect. Make them feel beautiful, listen to their problems, open the door for them.

View Quote I'm going to help you find your manhood. Do you have any idea where you might have lost it?

View Quote [After slapping Blanche and holding his hand over her mouth] Now, you just got a little boy's father killed and you almost got us killed and now you're lying to me. So how about this? From now on, every word out of your mouth is the truth or I'm going to hurt you.

View Quote There's a hundred-thousand streets in this city. You don't need to know the route. You give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes and I'm yours. No matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that and you're on your own. Do you understand?

View Quote Hey, you want a toothpick?

View Quote I don't think the gun grew little gun legs and walked out of the house. It's in here somewhere, find it.

View Quote Willy Beachum: [about Crawford's house] What style would you say this is?
Detective Flores: Oh... I'd say homicidal modern.

View Quote Willy Beachum: I'm not going to play any games with you.
Ted Crawford: I'm afraid you have to, old sport.

View Quote Dean: She just seems different, you know? I don't know.
Marshall: Wait. How different?
Dean: I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

View Quote Cindy: They're old. Would you wanna live like that?
Dean: Like what? In that home?
Cindy: Yeah.
Dean: Well, no. But I'm not getting old and he's a dummy for dying.

View Quote Dean: I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married, we marry, like, one girl. 'Cause we're resistant the whole way, until we meet one girl and we think, "I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl, she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place, they just kinda pick, pick the best option or something. I know girls that get married, they're like, "Oh, he's got a good job. " I mean, they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming, and then they... then they marry, they marry the guy that's got a good job and who's gonna stick around.

View Quote [to Bianca, after she is given flowers] Those are nice, huh? And they're not real, so they'll last forever.

View Quote Lars: I was talking to Bianca, and she was saying that in her culture they have these rites of passages and rituals and ceremonies, and just all kinds of things that, when you do them, go through them, let you know that you're an adult. Doesn't that sound great?
Gus: It does.
Lars: How'd you know?
Gus: How'd I know what?
Lars: That you were a man.
Gus: Ahhh. I couldn't tell ya.
Lars: Was it... Okay, was it sex?
Gus: Um. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's uh, yeah, yeah it's kind of— it's, uh— No. Well, it's kind of sex but it's not, uh, you know? I don't know. I don't know. It's— uh... good question, good question.
Lars: Yeah, but I have to know.
Gus: [the dryer buzzes] Hold that thought. [goes into the basement, Lars follows] You know, you should ask Dagmar.
Lars: I did ask Dagmar. And she said that I should ask you.
Gus: Okay, you know I can only give you my opinion.
Lars: That's what we want.
Gus: Well, it's not like you're one thing or the other, okay? There's still a kid inside but you grow up when you decide to do right, okay, and not what's right for you, what's right for everybody, even when it hurts.
Lars: Okay, like what?
Gus: Like, you know, like, you don't jerk people around, you know, and you don't cheat on your woman, and you take care of your family, you know, and you admit when you're wrong, or you try to, anyways. That's all I can think of, you know. It sounds like it's easy and for some reason it's not.

View Quote Dagmar: So, tell me about Karin. I don't know her very well.
Lars: Oh, she's wonderful. Gus and I are very lucky with women - she's wonderful. But she...
Dagmar: That's okay, let's find you something to read.
Lars: No, it's just... between us?
Dagmar: Of course.
Lars: I'm worried about her. I think she has a little problem.
Dagmar: Oh, well, maybe you shouldn't tell me.
Lars: No, that's okay. It's just, and I think it's because she's insecure, it's just, she's just always trying to hug everybody. You know, some people don't like that. Some people don't like to be hugged. But she doesn't realize that. She takes it personally, and, it hurts her feelings. I don't know what to do about that. Do you?
Dagmar: It's such a comfort sometimes, just to have somebody's arms around you. Don't you think?
Lars: No.
Dagmar: It feels good.
Lars: It does not feel good. It, it hurts.
Dagmar: Oh, like a cut, or bruise?
Lars: Like a burn. Like when you go outside and your feet freeze and you come back in and then they thaw out? It's like that. It's almost exactly like that.
Dagmar: Same with everyone?
Lars: Uh, not really with Bianca. But everyone else.

View Quote You can lie, you can cheat, you can start a war, you can bankrupt the country, but you can't **** the interns. They get you for that.

View Quote I'm not a Christian. I'm not an atheist. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Muslim. My religion, what I believe in is called the Constitution of United States of America.

View Quote Tom Duffy: Get out, now. Or otherwise...
Stephen Meyers: Otherwise, I'll end up like you?
Tom Duffy: Yeah, you end up being a jaded, cynical asshole, just like me.