86 Quotes by Ryan Phillippe

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

The ultimate 20-year plan is to be living in the Caribbean, writing, living off the land, eating from the ocean and probably smoking herb.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.