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Hollywood Actress Meg Ryan Quotes

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A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
Meg Ryan

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.
Meg Ryan

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.
Meg Ryan

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.
Meg Ryan

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them. I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
Meg Ryan

Fame is also a test of character at times... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, 'Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!'
Meg Ryan

He (Russell Crowe) is a very specific actor. You know, he's so capable - just the way he deals with props is amazing.
Meg Ryan

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.
Meg Ryan

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.
Meg Ryan

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.
Meg Ryan

I had a friend who was in a little bit of a manic phase, a little bi-polar, and I was getting reams and reams of names from her. My favourite was Oprah Winfrey Ryan. I knew then that I was in trouble. She was convinced that celebrities should just name their babies after celebrities. But we had to rule it out.
Meg Ryan

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
Meg Ryan

I think he took a big hit. But Russell didn't break up the marriage. He was definitely there at the end, but it wasn't his fault. I was a mess. I hurt him too at the end. I couldn't be in another long relationship, it wasn't the time for that. So I got out.
Meg Ryan

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
Meg Ryan

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.
Meg Ryan

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
Meg Ryan

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
Meg Ryan

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.
Meg Ryan

I've been an actress and famous person since I was 19 years old. I just needed to be with my son and figure out my life and see what I wanted. I felt like I was very reactive about my life as opposed to being proactive.
Meg Ryan

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.
Meg Ryan

I've played a heroin addict and a speed freak and dark characters throughout my career.
Meg Ryan

I am convinced, completely and utterly convinced, that there was nothing random about the adoption. She is the daughter I should have. I never felt like I was on a rescue mission or anything like that. I just really wanted a baby. I was on a mission to connect with somebody, and Daisy and I got to meet each other in this way at this time. We are so compatible.
Meg Ryan

Motherhood change me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.
Meg Ryan

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
Meg Ryan

Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
Meg Ryan

Oh, I’m so inadequate – and I love myself!
Meg Ryan

On why she hasn't been working very much recently - I've been famous since I was a teenager. There are a lot of empty spaces in that. I just feel like I've been filling in the cracks a little bit. I feel very fortunate, very free.
Meg Ryan

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.
Meg Ryan

People say that chivalry is dead, I don't think that it's dead, I think it's just got the 'flu!
Meg Ryan

Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type.
Meg Ryan

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia. Definitely.
Meg Ryan

The creativity? Oh, yes. OH, YES!
Meg Ryan

The e-mail relationships that I have are kind of fantastic, because I think you get to fill in your relationships a little bit if you actually get the time to sit down and compose a note to someone.
Meg Ryan

The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.
Meg Ryan

There is something about the sport that is so filmic ... there is something about the availability and the purity of these two guys who are absolutely stripped down to a very, very primal contest,
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We wrapped a year and a half ago and [since then] ... I've been to fights and watch fights. It's nuts.
Meg Ryan

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.
Meg Ryan

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan

You don't go, 'Wow! I get to do a nude scene.' But I love the sex scene in this movie. It was scary, honest and raw. But people could find my body very unattractive. There could be a backlash against it".
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