Ryan Phillippe Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Kids, Boys, White

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• 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

  Cutting, Talking, People

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• People are sheepish when they approach me.

  Ryan Phillippe

  People, Approach

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• People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Stars, People, Trying

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• I will no longer be an actor to hire, I have a passion for producing and making films.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Passion, Actors, Film

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

  Ryan Phillippe

  Sister, Brother, Three

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• But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Gun, Comfortable

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• 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

  Twenties, Teens, World

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• Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Finding The One, Hollywood, Stuff

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

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  Want, Proud, Miserable

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• I learn so much more in an ensemble movie.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Ensemble

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• 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

  Cutting, Opportunity, Careers

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• To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Boys, White, Stories

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• The idea of being in a hugely successful movie that I don't like would be just as bad as being in a film that I love that no one sees. I wouldn't want the kind of success that felt cheap or that I didn't own.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Successful, Ideas, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Hero, Play, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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

  Ryan Phillippe

  Firsts, Film, Written

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• Tarantino's movies, I really enjoy, certainly, and when I was 19 and 20, I was really into them.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Tarantino, Enjoy

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• Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Past, Years, Cameras

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• 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

  Mean, People, Bills

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• To be more involved and more aware is appealing to me.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Involved

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• You know, social issue movies don't make a lot of money.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Issues, Social, Knows

  "Ryan Phillippe and Terrance Howard talk Crash". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 05, 2005.

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